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Re: Banebots RS-775 Case Short

Basically our arm was run by the bb775 which shorted out when it hit a certain spot ... Disconnecting communication. At the time we couldn't figure out what was happening we even tried rotating the arm between matches and it worked but we musn't have tested it's full range of motion. So when our auto mode raised the arm we lost comms. After champs we found out that many other teams had the case short problems so we decided we probably won't use banebots for a few years. We also have had problems with banebots before that (2007 I believe) and last year we thought they had been improved so we would try them again.

Having said that the only problem we had with the banebots motors last year was in those last few matches at champs and we went to three competitions before champ.