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Re: Buggy BAG Motors

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We finally had two fell this past week, after running one through the entire lone star regional and a lot of practice before that with out problems and it's replacement. It's only been our back shooter motor in the 3:1 VP that has failed, the front motor that is in the 1:1 setup has not had an issue. The initial replacement motor failed rather quickly after less than 100 shots. We replaced it with another and it has been running fine through two days of heavy practice.
Was the replacement motor thaqt failed after 100 shots a recent one from VexPro or one from an earlier batch? We're trying to decide if we can trust BAG motors fresh from VexPro or go though the pain of swapping them out.

Like you, our initial shooter wheel was going through a 3:1 transmission and failed. We replaced it with a MiniCIM which works fine but, of course, weights a lot more.
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