Thread: 2006: Did anyone use the Mabuchi motor?
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Re: 2006: Did anyone use the Mabuchi motor?
This is the first time we ever used this motor.

We had a bin in the lower portion of the robot to store balls and we would use gravity to feed our ball elevator to load a rack to feed our turret/shooter.

The problem was that sometimes the bin would get jammed. We solved this by using a banebots transmission and some of round polyurethane belting which just ran in a loop. This simple mechanism was able to keep our bin jam free.

The banebots transmission isn't perfect, but we would never have used the mabuchi motor without it.