[Veselin Kolev]

There are pros and cons of some motors... here are some I can think of right now:

Drill: Pro
-Small and light, roughly 1 pound
-Slightly more power than the CIM
Con:
-Evil, hard to find metric gear...
-Burns out a lot
-Very high rpm, so its anoying to make a reduction
-Anoying to mount, seeing as it has no screw holes
-Suck very large amounts of current when at stall

CIM: Pro
-Easy to mount, with standard screws
-Keyed output, so you can put your own gears on it
-Lower rpm, so reductions are less anoying
-Almost as much power
-Never overheats (I've only done it once, so its rare)
Con:
-Big, and almost 3 pounds each

FP motor: Pro
-Even smaller than the drill
-Good power for its size
-Standard pinion, so its easy to mate
-Standard screw mount, easy to mount
Con:
-Overheats and melts
-Very high rpm
-Sucks current at stall

I have personally always liked the CIMs better for drive train, but they are sometimes more useful elsewhere. Heck, if we got 8 CIMs I would use them all. But.. seeing as how we dont, you gotta go with the FP motor for drivetrain sometimes, or the drill when we still had it.

If you use the drill or FP motor for anything.. especially drive train, always buy a bunch of extras. When I used the drill for swivel drive, it burned out roughly every competition. We just bought 10 of them and kept replacing them.

~Veselin Kolev