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Re: [FTC]: (FTC) Doubling motors on a controller

The specification for the HiTechnic Motor controllers allow a maximum of two motors per output port.

You may use a larger wire to feed the motor controller DC power input under c2 below however if you keep wire runs short, you may not see any real advantage to going to a larger wire then #16. If you are using more than one motor controller, make the one that feeds four motors your first controller in line with the battery pack for best drive performance.

<R11> Part modification:

c. Motor power, power and encoder wires may be extended by splicing additional lengths of wire:
1. Motor wires are 22 AWG or larger
2. Battery wires are 16 AWG or larger
3. PWM wires are 20 AWG or 22 AWG
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