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That’s a seat motor! It’s a holdover from a time when most of the motors in FRC came from the autmotive industry. It’s pretty low-power, but back in its day it was used for small, simple applications.

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Yep, a Bosch Seat Motor straight from the automotive industry as @ClayTownR said. Though I’d like to add some info from my experience with them:

  • They have a Weird Bore pattern/size, but adapters exist and fabricating your own isn’t too hard if need be
  • They are a decent worm gear drive that doesn’t backdrive easily (often you’ve damaged it by then)
  • They have an integrated single channel encoder. (that’s what the two thinner wires are for)
    • You need to boost the output voltage with something like this product from AndyMark
    • Being single channel It only gives you rotation, not direction. Depending on use-case you can try to manage that in software, but it is more tricky than a quadrature encoder
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Well, not this one specifically. It you look at the AM part# and datasheet date it’s fairly recent. More inline with dumping industrial garbage on teams in the KoP, similar to the Denso throttle motor.

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+1 to this - I had it mixed up with window and snowblower motors.

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