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Re: Can we use globe motors this year?

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
Personally I would be fine with the BB motor combination, if there was another supplier for the motors than Banebots. We got one of each in the kit but no one's going to use 1 BB motor. Everyone's going to use the 775s or 550s depending on application, with the others used sparingly. I would have liked 2 RS-775s and 2 RS-550s out of the box.
Ordering the motors is easy. It's their gearbox lead time that gets you.

The best solution would be to introduce some free-market competition, like if AndyMark were to introduce a COTS adapter plate to mount the 540/550 or 775 on one of their planetary gearboxes, for the teams that don't have easy access to a machine shop to make/modify their own.
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