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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli
This is not something we typically do.
By the way, VEX has NEVER run out of Speed Controllers during the FRC season since I have been the President.
Instead of looking at the perceived negatives of CTRE and VEX working together, I urge the community to look at it from a different perspective.
Consider the things VEX has historically been good at and the things CTRE has been good at and combine them. That is what the teams will get out of this partnership.
**And before anyone goes there again, comparing 2 SKUs for a product that there are limited supplier choices to 300 new SKUs in an environment where there is an established company and a completely unknown use case is just silly.**
Paul
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I do believe that meeting supply is possible, and that if anyone can do it, it's VEX, but people have the right to be a little concerned.
Historically, these sorts of things have sometimes been poorly executed, like everything BaneBots (remember CIM-u-lators in 2012?), game piece availibility (poof balls, orbit balls), VEX gearboxes (2 years), VEX/AM hex bearings, FIRST Choice (twice, and they knew the exact number of teams both times...), and a few others.
IMO, the biggest possible issues wouldn't be stock, but possible issues with the products themselves. They've gone through beta testing and I'm sure they've been designed really well (a group project between Talon and Victor engineers), but issues that pop up during production can be hard to spot.
That said, I really don't think there will be an issue. All companies/people involved know what they're doing, and I have faith in them. Even if something does go wrong, complaining about it on the internet won't solve anything.