[Dan Richardson]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

Do you anticipate having enough product to support teams if this game lends itself to your actutator?

We will certainly do our best to meet market demand. AndyMark will have a sizable inventory to start the season and we will have many of the components on hand if demand is higher than expected.

Originally Posted by nuclearnerd

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Depending on the game, I was planning on making an adapter to join one of these actuators with an FRC legal motor. Depending on your price, you may save us a lot of engineering.
http://www.princessauto.com/en/detai...or/A-p8272551e

We agree! This is actually one of the places we started. We looked at the actuator you linked along with larger alternatives like this one which is built to handle a more comparable motor power density to the CIM.

For reasons of weight, speed, packaging, etc. we decided we needed a ground up solution for FRC. We wanted to target a faster, lighter assembly for these applications. In our research, we found that one of the common complaints in regards to linear actuators is that they are slow and we wanted to break that mold with this product.

We wanted to land on something that could provide the force of a 2" bore pneumatic actuator at 60 psi AND still have enough speed to allow bots to be competitive.

Originally Posted by marccenter

Dear iR3,

Is there a range of prices that you anticipate the DART linear actuator will fall in?

The DART Linear Actuators will be introduced at around $380.