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Re: 2012 motors?

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Originally Posted by P. Fuller View Post
I feel like if FIRST added in more motors, they would have to add in more transmissions for said motors, and then more mounting hardware for the motors/transmissions and a lot of other things for those motors that I haven't thought of. It seems like that would drive the price up for the KoP, wouldn't it?
I would have a tenancy to agree but the window motors come with gearboxes, the FP gearboxes are only 12 dollars, and many small motors can be had with a gearbox for under 30 dollars and the CIMs are almost guaranteed to be in the KOP.

An example of a motor I think would work well for a mini motor would be something like this, with multiple ratios available.

http://www.fingertechrobotics.com/pr...od=ft-Sspark16