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Re: Banebots RS-775 Case Short

We had 1 out of 3 that were originally bad. Then after using 2 for the arm with a p60 256:1 gearbox that failed we had to switch to a CIM on the arm and put the 2 775's in our drive gearboxes with cimulators. As soon as we got in a pushing match they started giving the magic smoke smell and a jaguar burnt out. I suspect the problem wasn't originally detected but is now shorting on both of them. I asked around at the Florida regional and it seemed like everyone was having some sort of banebot troubles, be it gearboxes or case shorts. There are so many FP motors left over from years past, it seems a no brainer to let us use 2 FP's and 5 cim's like in the past. I'm all for that even though we've competed and couldn't launch a minibot one match due to a 775 short.
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