[ChrisH]

I think that overall we liked the new motors. They are very finicky in how you mount them and how you handle the wiring.

Thanks to the FIRST community here, I was able to warn our rookies to BE CAREFUL when handling them and give advance notice of some of the potential problems.

I think that if we see them again next year, they will be no big deal. The weaknesses are known and fixes for them are widely available, at least to CD readers.

Every time you change something major like the drive motors there will be a bit of a learning curve. It will take a year or two for people to get the bugs worked out. I think these have been pretty well wrung out now.

That said, I do wish the brush assemblies were a little more rugged. Other than that I have no complaints.

BTW we disassembled the tranny, removed the clutch and installed our own output shaft, before reassembling them. That may have reduced some of our problems.