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Nick
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 11802
Location: Sydney, NSW
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OK, the pancake motors don't fit well in a low drum bot design and they would be pretty useless for driving wheels (although not impossible). They are excellent for indirect drive to all types on horizontal spinning weapons and allow a thinner chassis that you can get with regular can motors. They would also work in tall vertical spinners like Orbit. I'm not knocking the compressor motors, just pointing out that there are other choices in the $10 and under price range.
I certainly
have
learnt my lesson about over-volting; forget RS55x drill motors and buy a quality unit, then over-volt the hell out of it!
When I think back on the NSW bots, everyone who has pushed a drill motor more than 4 to 6 volts over it's rating has had regular burn-outs; Cobra, Jolt, All Jeff F's bots, Orbit, etc. On the other hand, their weapon motors never burnt out at the same voltage. People have been using EVs, Dewalts and fan motors at up to 24V with no voltage problems. _________________ Australian 2015 Featherweight champion
UK 2016 Gladiator champion
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