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Originally Posted by sircedric4
January 24 at 7:30 EST. :-) I had a pretty good conversation with whoever answered the phone. Apparantly they are working 24 hours-7 days a week trying to get the orders filled. They didn't expect as big a demand on a new product.
My guess is that FIRST did not tell them that they were only allowing 4 CIMS this year. I know we wouldn't be using the Banebot motors and thus be waiting on CIMULATORS if we could have had a 5th CIM.
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Interesting.
We placed our order for P60's at 9AM EST on 1/19/11 and I do not believe it has shipped yet. I believe we fell into the earlier group of the now 10-15 day lead time so ours should be shipping soon, I guess.
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Originally Posted by Brandon Holley
Im sorry but that is a total crock. FIRST included 4 different motors of theirs and they didn't expect as big a demand?? Obviously teams are going to go to the source of their motors for their gearbox solutions. I understand it is tough for businesses to anticipate an FRC season because it's 6 weeks of HIGH volume business and very little the rest of the year. However, FIRST should be getting to a point after 20 years where there is enough data to start following trends and inform suppliers/partners of anticipated demand.
Maybe FIRST should conduct a survey of where teams buy a lot of their components from.
-Brando
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Brando, I'm with you. If I were in charge of a company supplying 4 different variants of motors (Technically 6 if you count the 775-12 and the 550-B that are legal as of the new updates) to all of the nearly 2,000 teams in FRC then I would assume at least 75% of them would come back to place an order for
something related to those supplied motors....
Shoot, if they're unable the order volume due to business size or staffing or whatever, then maybe they could look into having AndyMark carry their product line as well since AM doesn't really make many Gearboxes for the Smaller Motors and we know AndyMark is capable of handling the volume of build season order with a reasonable delay.