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Cooling Drill Motors
Posted by Gary Bonner at 1/29/2001 12:45 AM EST
Other on team #433, MINT, from Mount Saint Joseph Academy and Pew Foundation.
The drill motors have fans built into them, however, the intake ports are small and the air must flow though small channels between the motor and the gearbox housing. Has anyone ever tried putting holes in the side of the motor near the gearbox to allow more air to flow in and through the motor? Would this be legal? It seems to me that this might be a more efficient way to cool the motor, as opposed to using a muffin fan that just cools the outside. I haven't looked at one recently, but I believe that the FP motors might be similar.
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