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Re: shaft couplers

It was with the Banebots motor, our encoder malfunctioned and caused the arm to continually raise till it hit the mechanical stop and just continued to drive since it did not know when to stop. The CAD team this year did a marvelous job and we had a plan in place. Obviously you cannot predict every negative scenario and this only happened once in all of our matches. So we want to have the ability that if the need arises, a quick swap would be beneficial. I am glad to see that it served its purpose kaliken. And if you are designing the bot in CAD it is not that difficult to add this system in. I am so proud of these kids they did all of the CAD and I only helped with fixing some mistakes that were made before they were sent to be manufactured. It never hurts to just have the option on the bot.
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