Conveyor belt motor

[Dad1279]

Originally Posted by Betty_Krocker

if you take a stage out of the globe motor the motor bumps from ~80 rpm to ~480 rpm a huge increase, the only problem being that you have to mill the housing of the gearbox down...

It can be done w/o machining: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=73237

[Brandon Holley]

1 CIM through toughbox for intake/hopper
1 FP through banebots for elevator

[hillale]

pretty sure we're going dual cims.

[Betty_Krocker]

Originally Posted by Dad1279

It can be done w/o machining: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=73237

touche......

[Greg Peshek]

We were using FPs for both the ball intake mech and the conveyor.. however we are having issues with the wobble of the FP gearbox, and it is kind of slow. So now we're keeping a FP on the collector and putting a CIM on the conveyor belt, which should actually make our conveyor work 2 x faster.

[rsegrest]

64:1 Banebot...and on the shooter the 4:1 Banebots...I'm afraid...27rps

[Black Claw]

This is the information i've been looking for on what type of motors i should use on our conveyor belt design. thnks

[Smoores]

we originally were using banebots, which supplied adequate power, but after a quick glance at the rulebook, figured out that 7 banebot motors were not legal, so we strapped on a Cim, and are a having some FUN!

[Dad1279]

Originally Posted by Greg Peshek

We were using FPs for both the ball intake mech and the conveyor.. however we are having issues with the wobble of the FP gearbox, and it is kind of slow. So now we're keeping a FP on the collector and putting a CIM on the conveyor belt, which should actually make our conveyor work 2 x faster.

There have been some excellent posts on removing stages from a FP gearbox for more speed. I won't take credit for the idea, search around.

It is as simple as a 1/4" threaded coupler (which is reduced in length to the width of a gear, and happens to be the perfect fit inside the plastic gears), some threaded rod or bolts cut to size, and (2) 1/4" bronze bushings.

You can get about 1000rpm with 2 gears left in, and about 3300 with 1.