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Re: RIP Banebot RS550

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Originally Posted by stinglikeabee View Post
I'm curious if you allowed for proper air intake in your gearbox design? That was a leading cause of failure I found a few years ago. Some of the gearboxes for the RS775 and RS550 actually blocked the intake and required some machining of air slots.
Yep. But 550s will fry after only a couple seconds at stall. Up until this past year with current monitoring we had no easy way to monitor them. When one Loss is the difference between 1st and tenth, it's just nice to know an accidental stall won't cost a match.