Thread: Legality of purchasing Planetary Gearboxes from alternative sources.
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Re: Legality of purchasing Planetary Gearboxes from alternative sources.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
To put some actual numbers behind Marshall's claim that it's never been cheaper. ESCs are one of the larger costs in building bots. So I took a look back at the costs of the cheapest legal ESC in FRC going back to 2003. I've attached the graph here. I'm fairly certain you could do that for any single component of FRC bots and find things are getting cheaper.

I'll leave why it feels like it's getting more expensive to compete as an exercise. I have some theories but I think I'd like to see what others think.
Two things:
  • What's an ESC? Sorry for my ignorance.
  • I notice it is "minimum cost." What happens when you try to graph average or maximum cost. Minimum cost products aren't always necessary as good quality as they were in 2003 (though I'm welcome for someone to prove me wrong).
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