Thread: P27 Gearmotor
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Re: P27 Gearmotor

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
Yes, both the motor and the gearbox are symmetrical. I can't think of any motors or gearboxes in common FRC usage that have a systematic bias. If they did, it would require some interesting gearing to use them in a skid-steer drive. In the normal configurations, driving forward requires the motors on the opposite sides to spin in opposite directions.
While I agree that current FRC motors do not have a bias, this wasn't the case at the turn of the century. By far the most common drive motor was from a drill, which did go faster clockwise. Given a little bit of time at the sticks, humans learn to compensate really well.