Usage of Motors and there crazy uses!

[Richard McClellan]

Originally Posted by Zflash

There is a whitepaper called Nothing But Dewalts that shows in detail how to couple the DeWalt XRP 3 speed transmission with a CIM, Globe, and Fisher Price motor. We have used all three of these including the window motor on at least one of our robots from 2005 to 2008.

I am familiar with the NBD paper, we used 4 CIMs attached to Dewalts for our drivetrain this past year. However, I've never seen anyone use the window motors with the Dewalts. Did you have to machine a coupling to go from the 8 pointed star output to the sun gear inside the Dewalt? Do you have any details on that?

[Zflash]

Originally Posted by Richard McClellan

I am familiar with the NBD paper, we used 4 CIMs attached to Dewalts for our drivetrain this past year. However, I've never seen anyone use the window motors with the Dewalts. Did you have to machine a coupling to go from the 8 pointed star output to the sun gear inside the Dewalt? Do you have any details on that?

Our biggest problem with using the window motors from year to year has been that they are different from year to year as far as how the motor looks under the faceplate. It is basically a re design each time we try and use one. I will see if I can get any details and put it into a whitepaper or at least some pics to share with the community. We never really thought we were doing anything that special but maybe we are. Does anyone else know of another team that does this?

[m3ch4num470r]

Team 449 used a pair of window motors to power our forklift. After gearing them down a little more with a pair of sprockets &chain, it started beating me in arm wrestling competitions.