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Originally Posted by Joe G.
-4x Victor 888. You need to acquire a large number of speed controllers, and in your rookie year, likely won't gain much from the new features of the SP/SRX.
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I'll disagree here. Even if you don't use the new features, the fully-enclosed, no-fan controllers are great, especially for your first few years. We've gotten a lot better over the years about getting pieces drilled before installation, but our rookie year, we went on a serious night of weight removal on the night of bagging. Even with drop cloths over the board, we lost a couple of controllers when we fired it back up in the pit.
Other than batteries, motor controllers, motors, tools, and shaft hardware, and things that you decide that you need, you're probably better off waiting until after kickoff and banking the points. The other alternative is to put nearly everything on the list so you'll have whatever you have at kickoff.
I recommend NOT getting the Lazy Susan bearing. We got one our rookie year, at it was irresistible to use it. Putting our shooter on a turret was an incredible labor-hour and parts sink, to essentially no benefit other than cool factor. It would have been much better if we had made a fixed azimuth shooter and had time to calibrate the shots so that we actually made one. (OBTW, this was 2012 Rebound Rumble, a basketball game.)