pic: Our 2011 Mini-bot Tetrix motor grave

[Bill_B]

I divided up our team's tetrix remnants and had a grab bag ceremony at last year's FTC CT tournament. I offered the motor carcasses in a seventh bag, and it was snapped up by some enterprising youngster. I wished him well with the parts as the chances they would/will be useful in FRC future are slim indeed.

IMNSHO - GDC/FIRST failed big-time with the mini-bot challenge. They should have required construction of minibots by a registered FTC team and braced themselves to withstand the inevitable whining by FRC teams complaining of a lack of FTC resource in their area. Point would have been promotion and wider recognition of FTC.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by Bill_B

IMNSHO - GDC/FIRST failed big-time with the mini-bot challenge. They should have required construction of minibots by a registered FTC team and braced themselves to withstand the inevitable whining by FRC teams complaining of a lack of FTC resource in their area. Point would have been promotion and wider recognition of FTC.

If your goal is to have no Canadian* teams with minibots, that sounds like a fantastic idea.

*and other areas where FTC doesn't exist

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by Bill_B

IMNSHO - GDC/FIRST failed big-time with the mini-bot challenge. They should have required construction of minibots by a registered FTC team and braced themselves to withstand the inevitable whining by FRC teams complaining of a lack of FTC resource in their area. Point would have been promotion and wider recognition of FTC.

That was suggested at some point here on CD. Then the Trolls came out. We have a few around here ya know. Something about "if I wanted to do FTC i would have done FTC." There was some raging and a bit of whining in there too, but that was the gist of it. Oh, and throw in a "FIRST is anti IFI/Vex" in there for good measure.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by Wiifi

Huh. The guy who has been repairing them for us has always told me he replaced them with resistors. I'll have to look into that.

The part is an inductor with a current rating of something like 3 amps as I remember. A higher current rating will not fit in the allowed space. Although not legal at the time, two or three inductors could be wired in parallel and make the motor happy while still lying flat inside the case end.

[Karthik]

//Edit: Can't seem to be able to delete my post, only edit it...

[StevenB]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

As long as what they were designed for is to make a boat load of money by selling a cheap motor for $30 and letting it cook off if you stall it at all.

I can't find the original (it's somewhere here on CD), but I had to repost: