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Re: Mabuchi Motor Supplier

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
We decided against using those motors early on....for this reason.

If you cold get some spares from other teams, then it would be reasonable to use them
I've never had any problems getting enough spared from bartering with other teams for KOP bits that I wasn't using (finding a team that wasn't using the bit I was). Sometimes cash was kicked in by one or other side of the bargain.

Trust me, by the ship date, there will be a lot of horse trading going on around ChiefDelphi.com and elsewhere.

Bottom line: I wouldn't let lack of spares be the deciding factor in designing my robot -- especially the Mabuchi motors because I think a lot of teams will not use them (now if you want to say, 12W is not enough to do what I want to do in the time I want to do it, that is another story...)

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