IFI Increases Support of FRC Teams

[MagiChau]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Frank already announced that they would be in the KOP, which would make them legal. http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr.../blog-10-03-12

Frank's post does not confirm that the Victor 888 specifically is 2013 legal. He actually replied on a comment by Jon Stratis about whether the Victor 888 and Talon are legal with "Jon, I'm glad you liked the info. Unfortunately, this is all the information we're releasing about motor controllers at this time."

[Travis Hoffman]

My question is whether 884's will still be legal. One would presume so, but hey, they had to make 883's obsolete at some point back in the day. It's gonna happen eventually - just hopefully not too quickly.

[Richard Wallace]

Smoothly powered FRC drivetrains just got a lot less expensive. See Ether's data for details.

Bravo, IFI!

[waialua359]

I'm going to assume its legal as well, and after not seeing a limit to how much we can get, it looks like bulk order time!

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by waialua359

I'm going to assume its legal as well, and after not seeing a limit to how much we can get, it looks like bulk order time!

I wonder how many they are stocking to survive the anticipated large demand. It would be unfortunate for a few teams to make huge orders, leaving many teams who wish to purchase only a few in a bind if stock runs out, even for a short while.

[JohnSchneider]

This is outstanding!!!!

Is this only online or can we come get some in person?

[Paul Copioli]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

This is outstanding!!!!

Is this only online or can we come get some in person?

You can order online and select the pickup option. If you do, then you can pick them up at the office and save shipping cost.

Paul

[Akash Rastogi]

This is excellent! Thank you IFI for staying strong with supporting FRC. This is a huge help to young and old teams alike!

[BigJ]

Dang! We just bought 8 884's last year Just kidding, this is a great deal.

Thanks IFI!!!

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

You can order online and select the pickup option. If you do, then you can pick them up at the office and save shipping cost.

Paul

If a certain somebody was to fly from Texas to Michigan or maybe Ontario, and a box of Victors fell out of the airplane, say near the south side of Indianapolis, that would be cool too.

[Jon Stratis]

Awesome news, I think we'll be stocking up this year! The biggest reason we switched to Jaguars on our drive train starting with Lunacy was the linearity difference. With Breakaway we then switched over to CAN (easier wire routing, and it made encoder feedback for our mecanum wheels easier), and have stuck with it ever since. It only caused an issue once, where a pinched CAN cable disconnected, leaving our entire drive train dead for a match.

The new Victor, especially with this new price point, is making me think twice about how we might want to handle things this year. CAN does have some benefits that we've used in the past (it lets you use more than 10 motor controllers without an extra digital sidecar, and we've used the limit switch inputs to automatically control some motors, reducing complexity in the code), but the smaller footprint of the Victors is definitely a plus.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

You can order online and select the pickup option. If you do, then you can pick them up at the office and save shipping cost.

This option is available for Canadian teams as well. Our pickup location is the IFI Canada office, in Pickering, just east of Toronto. Teams can order online and come pick up the products on the same day.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by Karthik

This option is available for Canadian teams as well. Our pickup location is the IFI Canada office, in Pickering, just east of Toronto. Teams can order online and come pick up the products on the same day.

So when do we open the Midwest office up in Cincinnati?

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

So when do we open the Midwest office up in Cincinnati?

I was thinking of Chicago or St. Louis for the Midwest office.

Maybe just split the difference and go with Kokomo?

[Peyton Yeung]

Originally Posted by Richard

I was thinking of Chicago or St. Louis for the Midwest office.

Maybe just split the difference and go with Kokomo?

AndyMark and IFI in the same town...sounds awesome