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Re: RIP Banebot RS550

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
Sure you're not thinking of the FPs? THOSE were the days! Drills in the drive, the odd CIM in some random place, and FPs and Globes for everything else. (Well, unless you needed a window or van door motor...)

The FP motors (Fischer-Price motors, from say a Barbie jeep) were some really good climbers if you ran 'em through their stock gearbox. Long as you didn't stall 'em, you were golden. They could also be used in the drive to back up the drill motors (though I do recall a team a few years later using 2 CIMs and 1 FP on each side--poor little FP didn't stand much of a chance). And, they were fairly tough to kill off, though not as tough as the CIMs.
I remember that the 2005 FP had absurd power on paper as we were over volting it from the rated spec, but even so the 775's are dramatically superior to the 2005-2006 era FP's in any situation where they are under appreciable load.
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