Problem with CIM-VersaPlanetary Setup (Choo-Choo motor)

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Use a motor/gearbox combination that more naturally interfaces with each other. Consider replacing your CIM motor with a 775, or replacing the VersaPlanetary with a GEM500. Perhaps the fine folks at Vex can make suggestions as to how to modify a CIM to better fit their planetaries, but it is not designed to integrate with a CIM off the shelf.

We want to get the power that a CIM provides us, the other motors won't do the job at the speeds we need if at all with our current ratio and a ratio change would mean major mounting adjustments in something that has holes setup at the base of our robot which is pretty impossible at this stage in the game.

It was working really well for a while before the problem so we are pretty confidant that if we can connect the collar to the CIM better it will hold up through competition. We just need the clever engineers of the CD world to give us a better idea than mine of, just put a pin through both.