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Originally posted by KenWittlief
the old Motorola controllers were not that much different - in fact, the new ones are esentially clones (new and improved of course)
and there were no Victors back then, we used Tekin Rebel speed controllers (From Radio controlled cars).
Big difference was, you had to give the Motorola controllers BACK at the end of the season, or pay over a thousand dollars to keep them. For most teams, that meant you had to convert you bot to to use a 4 or 6 channel radio control system (from a model plane or car) if you wanted to keep your bot running.
BTW - if you go back to '97, the batteries used were two of the drill motor batteries (thats right! the little NiCad bats that fit in a cordless drill).
They had a capacity good for about 123 seconds :c)
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so thats why we can;t find out 99 control system! we assumed it was stolen, the team had a different advisors in 99 who retired shortly after so we didn';t know what happened with any of the electronics