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Originally Posted by Bharat Nain
We are given the names of 7 (arbitrary number) motors legal for an FRC competition. We are allowed to use as many of each type of motor as long as the total number of motors is less than 10 (again, arbitrary number).
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Akash, the reason this isn't practical is because we simply don't have the TIME to research the optimum component for each aspect of the game. By constraining us to 10 motors the GDC is restricting our decision to help us, instead of choosing from hundreds of motors we can only choose from 10.
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No worries about picking from hundreds - you must pick from seven, explicitly specified.
One issue is that many of the motors we are given are not available in huge quantities on the open market. If every team decided to use 5 of the LH window motors, I think the Earth would be hard-pressed to supply them.
One alternative would be to supply
some motors, and give teams the option that they can use "x quantity of these other, not-supplied motors if you want".
On a related topic: I sure would like to see an off-the-shelf linear actuator (like those used to turn satellite dishes) become available. Slow but powerful.