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Originally Posted by asid61

It's very noisy compared to the custom gearboxes that other teams use, and was especially noticable on our elevator this year. Most of the noise of our robot running came from the versaplanetary and the compressor fan. I need to get around to testing the actual efficiency one day, but at the moment the noise alone makes me wish for a change.

I can second this, they're so loud that I'm always worried that something's wrong with them. On that note, I've seen far more failures of versaplanetaries than of any other stock FRC gearbox. They're a really nice idea, I just haven't had good luck with them.