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Originally Posted by Greg Peshek
Well if they just legalized them as in let teams use them without putting them in kits... you would have teams with ridiculous advantages over any team who can't afford the price tag on even a small brushless motor. An Axi-2208 which is a comparable replacement for a motor a tough smaller than like the Banebots.. is about $75. Not to mention the price of the speed controllers.
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Yeah, and with the fairly high weight limit and short matches, there's really no design crunch to move to a more expensive/efficient motor. Although you're right, FIRST doesn't even allow teams to use brush motors that don't come in the kit; if they let teams buy comparable brushless you would start to see even more of a gap between well to do and not so well to do teams.
You make a very interesting point about the motor coefficients, too. Moving to brusheless opens up a lot of design parameters to which students don't currently have much exposure. Picking motors based on their performance and fit with your design becomes much more complicated and interesting.