Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-5276103-20180529061637/@comment-27306930-20180602033413

Rocketplane52 wrote: ... I'll probably keep the stock motors, and just throw in 3 IMRs w a dummy battery and then the Worker shell kit, which I plan to paint along with the blaster shell to look a little more fun and a little less deadly. I won't lie to you Rocket, three IMRs and a dummy will definitely work in a stock Stryfe, or pretty much any flywheeler that takes four AA batteries. And it'll run great ! For a while anyway. But you'll burn those motors out pretty quickly at that voltage.

When you run 6-volt motors at 11.1 volts, you can start to smell the ozone. That's a bad sign. It means there's high temperature arcing going on in the commutator. These ultra inexpensive 130s Hasbro puts in Nerf blasters, with their cheap brushes, were never designed to run at twice the normal voltage. It's like running your car engine way past the red line. You can definitely do it. More than once. But sooner or later, probably sooner, something's gonna break.

If you desire any longevity from your Stryfe, use two IMRs and two dummies. At 7.2 volts, those stock 130s will last a long, long time.