Does motor temp affect performance?

[JamJam263]

Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

Going back to the problem at hand.



If you have the ability to do it, gear down your motors a wee bit. All of these high temp scenarios can lead to some ugly consequences in the heat of competition (pun intended). You really are playing with fire (also intended).

I can defiantly agree with that. We burned out a couple CIMs and ended up blowing out a victor. And I don't mean that beautiful magic smoke. They had to get the fire extinguisher because the fire was spreading down out electronics board. Defiantly an important lessoned learned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJMuKH9WkZo

Granted we really did push the CIM way way too far with that design.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

If you have the ability to do it, gear down your motors a wee bit. All of these high temp scenarios can lead to some ugly consequences in the heat of competition (pun intended). You really are playing with fire (also intended).

And the irony is, more often than not you will get better performance AND less heating with a properly-geared system.

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