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Re: FRC Blog - 2016 Motor Controllers

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Originally Posted by Taylor View Post
Spikes are $10 cheaper than the least expensive motor controller, and most veteran teams have bunches of them.
I don't see them being legal if there if not an option for all teams to get them or something equivalent during the season.

We stopped using spikes for anything besides window motors because of the annoying tendency to blow the fuse with the bigger motors.
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