Alternative motors for drive train

[waialua359]

With the recent flexibility in the use, number, and types of motors, I cant see why anyone would use anything other than CIMs in their drivetrains as their main source of power..........other than weight issues.
In 2010, we had a pretty tough drivetrain that allowed us to play striker in all of our tournaments. Oddly enough, we used only a 1 CIM/1 FP (AM planetary gearbox) drive on each side to push robots around. We did it to shave off weight during crunch time of build season.
That year we had I believe a 47 match win (non-loss) streak including the ties.

[BigJ]

As John mentioned, we have mini-cims for our drive this year. I believe this was done primarily for weight issues, as our design is a corner climber-dumper. We are using custom 1-speed gearboxes.

I'm a software guy so to me it's all -1.0 to 1.0, but I'll see if I can get someone who worked on it to talk about ratios and such.