pic: burnt up TETRIX motor

[Tristan Lall]

Hypothetically, if one were to install a wire in parallel with the resistor, without making any modifications to the motor, <R47> would not stand in the way.* Since I don't have the motor in front of me, I can't say whether this would actually be possible: in all likelihood it would involve laparoscopic surgery through the vent holes (if any), and wrapping a shunt around the leads.

Perhaps that's not what FIRST intended...but wrapping a wire around a lead is no more a modification than wrapping a chain around a sprocket. Of course, irrespective of what the rule says, it's unlikely that FIRST would give its blessing to this technique if you inquired about it in the Q&A.

In any event, I wouldn't recommend doing this. In fact, I only bring it up because it would be a plausible explanation to give an inspector checking the resistance at the motor terminals. (Not that such checks are common practice.)

*Sometimes you just need to think like a criminal....