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Originally Posted by roboruler
For something like this, it would probably be a lot better and cheaper to buy some Brushless outrunners and brushless ESC's rather than try to keep to FRC legal parts only. Your spinning a flywheel in one direction at highspeed so it's basically perfect to be made Brushless.
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It really wouldn't, though. Even assuming they don't reuse old parts, a CIM is $27 and a Spark is like $45, which together is comparable to or cheaper than a 12V 300W brushless motor. You can get non-reversible PWM speed controllers for brushed motors for less than the cost of common FRC reversible controllers.
Edit: I didn't see they were feeding the CIM through a VP, which I honestly think they could skip if they wanted and just cantilever the wheels off CIM shafts with hex adapters. Kind of sketchy but it would be fine for an offseason robot.