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Re: Need advice on motors, gearboxes, and ESCs

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Originally Posted by nathannfm View Post
You should know that these gearboxes are not actually designed to work with CIMs and MiniCims, some modification is necessary (I am not sure what you have to do but I bet you could find it by searching CD)
Thanks for pointing this out (as well as for your other advice)! I didn't realize that.. Looking at the VersaPlanetary product page, it looks like the BAG motors work with it without modification, but the downside is that it appears that the BAG motors are only about 1/4 as powerful as the MiniCims..

I found this blog post:

http://blog.spectrum3847.org/2013/01...-mounting.html

The good news is, it looks pretty easy to do the modification (just cutting the shaft).
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