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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
I hope there are not too many teams who cannot afford to spend the allowable amount on their robots - what is the cap these days? $3.5k?
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As was noted above, a lot of teams budget their limited funds in ways that preclude expensive but convenient parts. A $300 expense for transmissions is a difficult thing for more teams than you might imagine.
Now that I think more about it, with the kit transmissions available, there isn't really the risk that the teams that can spend a few hundred dollars more will dramatically outclass the others. That would have been a bigger issue a few years ago, back when we had the Bosch motors and their slightly inelegant transmission mount and crossed-axis output as the no-cost option.