Can we use globe motors this year?

[Bob Steele]

I personally like the choice of motors in the kit.
It is a good balance and the BB motors allow quite abit of versatility.

The only change I would have made is to allow 2 FP motors instead of one.

For years we have had to struggle to find spare or replacement motors for a bunch of reasons... go out and try to buy a van door motor... or at least the right one...

For many years you couldn't get the correct FP motors either.

Now, we have a source of almost unlimited spares and replacements (CIMS and BANEBOTS)
We can get spares and play around in the offseason with different configurations.

As far as gearboxes... we are using the AM planetary gearboxes with the 550's ... and they work fine... I know other teams are using the 775's with the AM planetary.

so OK the AM gearbox is a little pricey at nearly 3 times what the CIMULATOR sells for... but it will work...

Back when I started we got no gearboxes...then we got a plastic sort of one for Stack-Attack...

Everyone should stop complaining... we have a great selection...

Building a robot is supposed to be a tough challenge... you really want to have bolt-on solutions? I greatly appreciate what AndyMark does and also Banebots... but it wasn't that long ago that neither existed... In some ways I think that was better...

Do some engineering...
improvise, adapt, overcome...

remember surrender is not in our creed!

that is all
Semper Fi