Is this motor legal?

[Jon Stratis]

As a good rule of thumb, if there is no model number on the motor and you don't know what it is, it's probably not legal.

For that motor, it's fairly easy to go through the legal list to see it's not legal:
CIM? nope.
Banebots? Nope.
Andymark? Nope.
BAG / MiniCIM? Nope.
Window, Door, Wiper, Seat? Probably not, as it doesn't fit the normal form factor of those motors.
Bosch? Nope.
Snow Blower? Nope.

Sometimes the easiest way is to run through the list and see if it falls into any specific category on there.

But as others have said, we can identify it as a globe motor from way back in the day, and thus know that it is no longer legal. They haven't been legal for a very long time, but they still manage to crop up on robots from time to time, even on teams that never would have gotten one in their kit of parts!

[MotorHead]

Thanks for all the replies. We have bins on some old stuff and didn't know the status of this motor only that at one time it was legal. Definitely time to do some purging from our stock.

The PG71 Planetary Gearbox with RS775 Motor recommended above will do nicely though.

[who716]

Originally Posted by MotorHead

The PG71 Planetary Gearbox with RS775 Motor recommended above will do nicely though.

THE PG71 gear motor are my favorite motors to work with there small easy to mount and use and runs at a reasonable spead for many mecanisms, I used two of them last year to power the ball pick up, and we are using two again this year to operate the recycle bin mecanism, the only issue we had with them last year was the electrical connector tabs getting damaged and ripped off but andymark seemed to fix that this year with the new connectors, and also a plus the new models have a built in encoder, fantastic motors

[pfreivald]

I know VexPro designed the BAG motor with a 100:1 Versaplanetary as a very comparable globe motor. (Bad A** Globe motor is not a coincidence in the acronym!)

[EricH]

Originally Posted by MotorHead

Thanks for all the replies. We have bins on some old stuff and didn't know the status of this motor only that at one time it was legal. Definitely time to do some purging from our stock.

Stick it in a bin marked "Offseason Projects ONLY". They're nice little motor/gearbox combos, just not legal for FRC use.