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Re: 2007 Kit
Well, battery gripes aside (Was 1293 in 2004 the only team that ran its season on two batteries?), I dig this kit. You've got the right balance of getting the smaller teams underway and enough goodies to really get things going for the upper-level teams.
I foresee omni heads jumping for joy over the newer, more compact, cheaper CIM planetaries from BaneBots. You can definitely mount them up in more places than the old kit transmission. So long as the reliability is there, I'm sold.
I'm also noticing that the as-received kit is down on power this year. You can get two more small CIMs and one more large CIM, but you know how things are when they're out of sight. (They're out of mind.)
I also bemoan the continued absence of the IFI breaker panel, but we'll survive. Oh, and did anybody think we got enough 6 AWG crimps?
The media packet was nice and organized, moreso than past editions.
Oh, and I'm feeling the new AndyMark-provided wheels. They're small, lightweight, and grippy as anything I've seen in the kit.
The absence of a few choice parts like the breaker panel grinds on me a bit, and the battery gripes are obvious, but overall it's not that bad a kit. I'd give it a low A or a high B.
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William "Billfred" Leverette - Gamecock/ Jessica Boucher victim/ Marketing & Sales Specialist at AndyMark
2004-2006: FRC 1293 (D5 Robotics) - Student, Mentor, Coach
2007-2009: FRC 1618 (Capital Robotics) - Mentor, Coach
2009-2013: FRC 2815 (Los Pollos Locos) - Mentor, Coach - Palmetto '09, Peachtree '11, Palmetto '11, Palmetto '12
2010: FRC 1398 (Keenan Robo-Raiders) - Mentor - Palmetto '10
2014-2016: FRC 4901 (Garnet Squadron) - Co-Founder and Head Bot Coach - Orlando '14, SCRIW '16
2017-: FRC 5402 (Iron Kings) - Mentor
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