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Re: General Motor Rules

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Originally Posted by Knufire View Post
And you'll get a new arms race of teams trying to source the most optimal (powerful, power density, power/weight ratio, whatever criteria you want) motor. Could be hard to find, or prohibitively expensive for lower resource teams to obtain; many of which won't even know the motor exists. This would just widen the already large disparity between the top and the bottom of FRC teams.
It's a relatively bounded arms race though, as 500 and 700 sized motors only get so powerful at 12V.