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Re: Throttle Motor

We had worked out a way to couple it to an existing PG gearbox from AndyMark to use as a steering motor for a swerve drive. We prototyped the coupler and knew that would work, but we never got around to building it into a swerve drive and testing that part out. Our driver for that was the fact that we could use 4 of them and had no place else we would want to use them - if they would work there, it would be great. Of course, just as we were about to start testing it, FIRST started allowing more and more motors... So, that project was shelved, as there are better and easier motors to use for that now that we don't have to worry about quantity. Of course, that could all change again...
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