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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
You'd think it's legal, but the GDC had a fun related answer last year. They declared that you couldn't remove the gearbox from a first legal window motor and adapt another FRC legal motor to it, because the gearbox was integral to the window lift motor and couldn't be modified. By that reasoning, pulling the stock motor off a PG71 and replacing it with a different FRC motor would also be illegal. But if you bought the standalone gearbox, it presumably would then be legal.
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You can't be serious? Why do I feel like I've just stepped into a Kafka novel? Has no one else on another team done this? Or are they just not talking about it?
I understand the reasoning last year with the window motor, because that gearbox is not sold separately from the motor. However, under the listing for the PG71 gearbox on the AM website, they specifically say "This is the gearbox that comes with the
PG71 Gearmotor." and "Alternatively, it can be attached it (sic) to the new
9015 motor (am-0912)... ". So, when I take apart the Gearmotor, I have the exact same gearbox, but in order to use it as the vendor intends for it to be used, I have to pay $60 to buy another one?!? (And people wonder why it is so expensive to run an FRC team...)
(Is that really why there is a different sticker on the Gearmotor and the Gearbox?
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