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Re: DISCONTINUED: Bane Bots RS-550 Planetary Gearmotors

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Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris View Post
and it looks like this time they will not be made in Colorado... not Asia like the last ones... I had some bad experiences with these gearboxes back in 2007, the quality of the materials used was atrocious for a gearbox with such a high reduction. I have hope we could see usable high-reduction planetary gearboxes from BaneBots in the future, but I'm not holding my breath.
I think everyone had that experience, we had to take other teams broken gearboxes and then we mix & matched to make ours work. The single CIM gearboxes worked fine though. The dual CIM ones did not work so good.
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