FP 2011 (00801-0673) versus 9015 power

[de_]

According to some specs we ran into, 2011 FP the 00801-0673 motor might be materially more powerful than a FP 9015. Anyone confirm this ?

[Ether]

Originally Posted by de_

According to some specs we ran into, 2011 FP the 00801-0673 motor might be materially more powerful than a FP 9015. Anyone confirm this ?

http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...torInfo4.1.pdf

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2432

[fox46]

Does the AM motor have any kind of internal protection in it?

[Ether]

Originally Posted by fox46

Does the AM motor have any kind of internal protection in it?

Have you tried emailing AM to ask?

[de_]

Thanks for links to motors. I'd lost track of where I had seen that data.

Was also hoping some users had some real world experiences with the two motors and could say yes they saw a noticable difference corresponding to the higher rated power.

[caffel]

I have been looking for this one too.
We should note that it is not on the list of approved motors for 2012 in my copy of the rules.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by caffel

I have been looking for this one too.
We should note that it is not on the list of approved motors for 2012 in my copy of the rules.

What does the pronoun "it" refer to in your post?

If "it" refers to either the 9015 and the 0673, then you have an outdated copy.

[de_]

update: You can sure tell when the higher power, higher kv motor is installed. The wheels turned way faster (due to higher KV) and the motor ran significantly hotter (more current draw: had to install fan), ended up gearing the shooter speed down. More is not necessarily
always better

[Ether]

Originally Posted by de_

update: You can sure tell when the higher power, higher kv motor is installed. The wheels turned way faster (due to higher KV) and the motor ran significantly hotter (more current draw: had to install fan), ended up gearing the shooter speed down. More is not necessarily always better

If a wheel shooter motor is running hot, it's usually one of three things:

• improper gearing
  
  
• blocked air vents
  
  
• too much friction

[de_]

fyi: We had a 9015 on before (16K no load), and a 0673 on afterwards (19k no load). The extra rpm was surprising visible (actually way too fast full power) and the power required to sustain the higher rpm was clearly higher (wheel hubs have wind resistance, also the AM planetary has resistance presumidly proportion to the speed they turn). We had a clip on amp meter monitoring amp draw and it would go over 30 amps peak when a ball when through until the rpm recovered. And of course they had to test a ton of balls.. So things got hot.


Update Clarification (sorry): We had the motor driving a AM 3.7/1 planetary driving a chain based gear reduction of 1 to 0.7 (ie wheel turns 0.7 rev per rev of output of AM gearbox). Our wheels are 8". Clearly the motors have to overcome planetary loses, chain loses and wheel turning loses so they are not running at no load speed but they are still pretty fast. We added a second motor also with a fan to spread the heat load between the motors (until we can prove one motor can survive). My best guess we could get away with final chain ratio of 2/1 reduction and one motor.

Last I heard, these motors were only 60% efficent so even at 15 amps, 0.4 x 15 amps x 12v = 72 watts (compare to a 60w light bulb) so things heat up. I've never regretted adding a (little victor) fan to blow in and around one of the brush cooling slots !

[Ether]

Originally Posted by de_

Current design has a 0.7/1 speed reduction

That sounds way too fast.

What is your wheel diameter ?

[nitneylion452]

.7:1? That puts the motor at ~21k RPM and a measly 44.6 oz-in of torque (assuming no loss in the gearbox. More practically, you could expect 40.1 oz-in assuming 10% loss). To put that into perspective, the Hitec HS-322 HD servo has 53.3 oz-in of torque.

[de_]

Sorry, updated above post to clarify that we have a AM planetary providing 3.7/1 reduction followed by a sprocket based reduction of 1.42 (1/0.7) (=5.2 net) driving 8" wheels.

[nitneylion452]

We are running 2 RS-550s (slightly more powerful than -9015) for our shooter, each drives 2 8" wheels and we haven't had any heat issues. We run them through 5:1 reduction BB P60 gearboxes and direct drive to the wheels. I would look at your shooter a little more closely if you're having issues with your motor heating up.

[de_]

The heating was very apparent when we upgraded our original single motor 9015 to a single 0673 for hopefully improved recover time. The motor direct drove the shooter via the AM 3.7/1. When a ball was shot with the 0673, the current peaked at 30 amps+ and then ramped back down to normal over the ~ 3-4 seconds recover time. If during testing, you shoot a couple of dozen balls one every 3 seconds, that's a lot of heat the motor has to dissipate. In the competition, I suspect we would be lucky to shoot 6 balls over 2 minutes (at nowhere near full power). My original post was basically to highlight the quite visible effect of the higher KV motor had to our wheel speed (too much, had to slow it down with sprockets) and the increased power consumption (and risk to the brushes/motor life) that followed the extra speed.