[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII

Here's a pretty definitive answer:

We built two identical drive trains last year. One for the competition robot and one for practice/prototyping. The practice/prototyping robot used one FP CIM (The Big CIM) and one small CIM on each side. The competition robot used two small CIMs on each side.

Our driver didn't seem to notice any difference. Handling wasn't affected. They both worked identically.

However, we saved a significant amount of weight by switching to the small CIMs.

thanks for the response. if we have time, we may prototype adaptor plates since we look to go direct drive with the supershifters. weight tradeoff is definitely a huge factor.
we made adaptor plates to our am2 shifter plates since we wanted to try a direct drive, however, using one Big CIM motor made it considerably heavier.
Of course, the speed would be too fast without an addtional reduction using the AM2's.
We were toying with the idea of using the FP motors with planetaries also, but after hearing Cory's comments, we may use that as a last resort, if necessary.

thanks.