Hello All! In our previous robotics session, we were building, and we left our program on. After some time, we noticed that our tensioner motor was very hot to the touch, and was emitting a light smoke smell. Has anybody else faced this issue? If so is there any solution to it? Can the motors overheating cause any major issues? Thank you!
This may seem obvious, but don’t leave the program running, and it probably won’t overheat.
Try not to run the code if you do not have to.
I always take out the battery when I have finished a session/if I’m not actively driving/testing the code
Yeah ive run into this. when i used to do IQ i would drive for Hours on end. Especially over covid i would often drive my robots for like 4-6hours straight. (with some breaks obviousley but not long ones) and the motors would get pretty hot and the room would start to smell a little like burnt plastic but i never managed to get them to actually smoke. just dont leave your robot runing and u shold be fine. althought im a little suprised hte motors got that hot before the battery jsut died. then again i never had the new lithium ion batterys only the nickle cadium ones which died really fast.
Yes, this happened to us many times last season. We found no major issues resulted from this, but I would swap out your motors if they get hot during competitions.
Maybye your motor is on the hold setting. this setting can strain the motors and overheat them.
By the way, that is really cool.
update: we burnt our motors too.