27-08-2004, 15:50
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...and you can't! teach! that!
 FRC #5402 (Iron Kings); no team (AndyMark) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: The Land of the Kokomese, IN
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Re: Retiming the motors ?
They only spin one way? I could've sworn that you can make them go both ways...although my experience (none whatsoever) may be faulty.
As for price, 540-sized brushless R/C car motors (which are a smidge smaller than Fisher-Price motors, IIRC) are coming waaaaaaay down in price, almost around the cost of buying and maintaining a modified or really good stock motor.
Of course, there's still the problem that they require special speed controllers. IFI might have to go back to the drawing board for that.
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