VEXPro - After the season

[Steven Donow]

So far (after only one event):
Drive in a Day Chassis-Awesome. Easy and quick, and we were able to mess with it as we wanted, ie. we got our own laser cut "sideplates" to raise the chassis up a few inches(this was to put an intake that we ended up abandoning).

Ball Shifters-So far, they've been great. The only issue we've had was the output shaft coming loose(it happened on probably 3/4 that we've had...but only once during an actual match), but that is easily fixed. The shifting is great, and combined with the sprockets and VersaHubs, it's so easy to change things to get any desired gearings.

MiniCIMs-we were originally using these on our shooter(we changed for purposes of wheels; nothing to do with VEXpro products themselves) and had virtually no problem with them.

BAG Motors-We're now using these for our shooter, and have yet to see any problems with them(in practice that is). We were originally using them on our intake, and never had problems with the motors themselves...hopefully we don't experience the problems people are talking about with them...

VersaPlanetaries-THESE ARE AMAZING!!!!!!! Changing reductions and motors has never been so easy, especially compared to needing pinions with Banebots gearboxes...We have one that is 15:1 with a 550 on our hopper and that has given us virtually no problems. Our shooter now is running BAGs 1:1 with them, and the only issues so far have been: on some of the gearboxes (4:1s I believe...) the little pin next to the assembling holes(I have no other way to figure out how to describe that) didn't line up, and we weren't able to make 1:1 gearboxes out of them. Also, occasionally, the screws that mount into the BAG motor have come loose. We retightened it and so far(after running them a large amount) they have yet to come loose. Also, the E-Clip on the bearing for the input...we also had the issue described above where the mounting collar flat out broke upon tightening the set screw too much...we also one had the bearing of the output fall out...

Traction Wheels-Great so far, nothing has gone wrong with them, except it'd be nice to see a simpler way of mounting tread, similar to the new AM Performance wheels.



Overall, VEXPro has been awesome stuff that definitely gave us a top of the notch drivetrain this year.