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Re: Custom Vs. COTS Transmissions

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
On another note -- The black FP gearboxes come with very forgiving plastic gears that have giant teeth. While they're probably not great for high-precision or high-power systems, they do seen to find their way onto some very successful robots every year. Hopefully they'll be in the kit again this year so they're legal to use.
These are an excellent choice for the Banebots RS-775 motors since they already have the appropriate mounting holes for a 700 sized motor and the plastic gears and mounting holes electrically isolate the motor from anything else a short in the 775 could could interfere with.
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