[Tom Line]

We haven't gotten the new FIRST Beta test materials yet. They are still a couple weeks out on shipping them.

We kicked our Beta off early specifically to test the Talons. They are not a FIRST legal product and were supplied directly by our CrossTheRoad contact, not by FIRST. There is no connection to FIRST.

We've got 5 right now. The reason we aren't testing a CIM is because they've already been tested thoroughly with a CIM. Now we're interested in getting as wide a variety of motors tested as possible. We've got a handheld infrared temperature gage so most of our results will be temperature over time graphs with amperage draw and voltage overlayed.

Our current plan is to run one on our robot lift-winch from our 2010 bot (that winch ran near stall most of the time). We'll run one on a cim in a drivetrain just to try it out. We're going to try one on our shooter. We'll run one on our 2010 ball intake - that ran near stall quite a bit and is a window motor to boot. Then we're going to put a rope on the ball intake with a weight on the end, and cycle the window motor to attempt to get it to lock up. We may get around to beating them up on the Cims, but our priorty is to develop data for the other motors.

Hopefully we can get the majority of Talon testing done by the time Beta materials show up.