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Re: Intake wheel motors

well, i learned it in a hard way but i can say that using andymark motors with gearboxes (like pg71) are a bit ineficient, in our aerial assist year we used pg71's in intake and it takes forever for it to get the ball totally. Last year we used window motors in our intake mechanism, it was better than pg71's but still it was too slow. However, this year, there was a special offseason event in Turkey with game of 2006, aim high and we built another robot for that offseason. In that robot we decided to use mini CIM motor connected to a CIMple box connected to wheels with chains and i can say that it almost worked perfectly. Still, bag motors with plenataries will probably be better but we dont have that much oppurtunutiy and parts in Turkey so we have never been able to test that.