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Re: Question on Using Motor Components

I know when we asked this question to QA in 2009 in regards to using a small non-kit motor hooked up to generate current that we wanted to use to sense the power (dynomometer) that something was generating we were told that we could not...

By some of this logic... a bunch of wire and a few magnets could be construed to have the potential to be a motor...

i find it hard to believe (but still possible) that any regulation would be written that would preclude the use of a motor..or any part thereof... in a non-motor role to be contrary to
the "motor" rules...

the "motor" rules were written in order to make the game and the robots have a similar base of power.

Actually it is pretty funny to read these threads...

A motor by any other name would still smell and squeak..... GDC Shakespeare...
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