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Re: General Motor Rules

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Originally Posted by pmangels17 View Post
My vote would be, go back to the motor rules we had in 2011. There were enough motors there to do whatever we wanted, not enough for a drivetrain arms race, and just enough limitation that teams were forced to make tradeoffs on design. For posterity, those rules were: 4 CIM's (we could say now and/or MiniCIM's), 4 Banebots, FisherPrice Motors from the KOP, window motors from the KOP, and maybe now a couple AndyMark or BAG motors
Similar motor rules to 2011 makes a lot of sense.

4 CIMs, 2 MiniCIMs, 4-6 BAGs/Banebots/AM/Fisher Price, Unlimited Window motors/Servos

If you need more motors than that, I don't know what to say. (20's 2015 robot had 12 motors on it: 4 CIMs, 6 BAGs, and 2 window motors. The original version of it had 4 CIMs and 8 BAGs, but without the window motors)
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