Can we use globe motors this year?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

I am supposed to be afraid of offending the FIRST and BaneBot gods? This is an open forum and I am entitled to my opinion. Futhermore, teams have paid significant sums of money to compete in this competition. FIRST delivers a product and we expect it to be of the highest quality. These "slippery slopes" although possibly offensive and seemingly ungrateful representations of people's dissatisfaction are what help improve the FIRST product.

All other mechanism shafts on our robot spin well over 1000 rpm at nominal load.

I hope you don't have an arm on your robot.

I agree, the power is nice but not if you can't use it. Why not go for more motors like the CIMs with a reasonable 5000RPM output? - The answer is they're more expensive and the temptation to turn down a free set of motors is irresistable to the KOP designers. If the BaneBot motors were indeed a donation, then why did they have to get rid of all the other motor options? Why not improve the KOP and make it more diverse rather than saying "Oh, well we have these four motors... that should be enough..."