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Originally Posted by Chris is me
They definitely are! The BAG motor with a 100:1 reduction is awfully reminiscent of the old Globe motors that used to be in the kit. They can handle the torque.
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Never said you can't use a VP or configure it to do servo tasks. But a two stage VP and Bag motor is unreasonably long and still only gets you to 140rpm. What if you want 15-40 rpms? I have to attach a mini-cim to a 100:1 config just to get it to 62rpm at full power. For a simple high power/ low rpm servo, thats just an unreasonably heavy config and in most cases its unmountable if your trying to use it to drive an elbow on a multistage arm. A highly compact high torque, non-pneumatic, low rpm servo is sorely missing in the FRC toolkit. Window motors are highly underutilized for this task because there is no standardized means to connect it to other things with reliability.
BTW, the single stage 1:1 is a great idea. We ran into the same issue needing to refab the mount in order to convert from 1:1 to 4: 1. The same thought occurred to me. Why wasnt there an internal extension to enable 1:1 in a single stage case.