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Re: RS550 and 775 to be legal for 2016, dimensions of KOP items

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
I'm still bitter from the huge reliability concerns the Banebots 775s had in 2011, where case shorts potentially ruined seasons for some teams. Combine that poor track record with the 775pro's power and efficiency improvements, particularly the ball bearing supported output shaft, and I'd be wary of using BB 775s again. I do know that teams used 775s from 2012-2015 without many notable incidents, so they probably fixed the problem, but 2011 left a sour taste in my mouth.
Exactly this. In the 3v3 era, I can think of four spectacular, caused-a-lot-of-teams-a-lot-of-heartache-if-not-cost-them-Einstein COTS failures:

1) The 2007 Banebots drive gearboxes, where planet gear carriers were getting swapped out as late as Championship
2) The 2009 driver station, whose guts were apparently completely unprotected from static and anything on the I/O pins
3) The 2011 Banebots 775, which literally shut 781 down in the Einstein finals
4) The entire 2012 field-and-control-system combination, which...yeah.

Two of those were mandatory things your team had to use, and as such you didn't really have a choice. But by golly, there's no shortage of alternatives to the other two.
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