[DFTF] Drinking from the firehose...

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Originally Posted by Tom Line

Banebot's RS-775s are very powerful and very hard to smoke, unless of course you get a shorted one, or one with bearing damage, or a locked shaft... which for us, after buying approximately 15 of them last season, runs at a failure ratio of about 50%....

I second this, The main issue is the electrical parts of the motor are often shorted to the case of the motor. Often, this is a manufacturing defect that can be checked for with a multimeter before the motor is put on the robot, although there have been cases of such shorts developing after use. My recommendation is to isolate the motor from any metal on the robot other than the two wires that connect it to the victor or jaguar. Last year we did this by using fisher price plastic transmissions. Watch out for unexpected electrical pathways such as gears and screws. They are a pain, but still awesome.