You make it sound as if I wish to make this illegal. That is far from the case. My team has extremely limited funds at the moment and may be recovering CIMs from the drivetrain of last year's robot to use for mechanisms this year.
When asked this question last year the GDC's response was to basically parrot the manual
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CIM motor
Posted by FRC1513 at 01/22/2008 02:53:02 pm
Do we have to use current year CIM motors or can we use two from another year to run the mecanum system.
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Re: CIM motor
Posted by GDC at 01/24/2008 02:56:41 pm
Please refer to Rule <R58>. Motors from previous robots and years may be used as one-to-one replacements for damaged or failed motors.
Per Rule <R59>, up to four 2 1/2" CIM motors may be used on the robot.
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I have only been around FRC for 2 years, but I have already seen what can happen around the gray areas when it comes to inspection. I highly doubt that an inspector would check this, and I agree with you on the intent of the rule and how nuts it would be to use it to restrict CIMS simply because they have been used on previous robots, but I tend t practice "better safe than sorry" whenever I can. In a case like this the cost of assuring safety is extremely low, a minute or two of my time to write the Q&A question and a minute or two of the GDC's time to answer it.