General Motor Rules

[Knufire]

Originally Posted by jman4747

I'm not trying to get one specific motor legalized and this thread isn't about stepper motors or brushless motors. The point is to make use of any comparable motors regardless of P/N. It has nothing to do with trying to obtain a marginal increase in power form an obscure motor. I am asking for the freedom to source and use similar motors at will. This has nothing to do with changing the allowed number of motors on a robot/total allowed power.

We already see teams short, stall, smoke, our current selection. We have snap action and main breakers, the motor will only have a 12V power source, and it's an 18ah lead acid battery. Thus regardless of the motor specs the electrical system will not allow more power output or current draw and won't pose more of a threat to the operators. If teams already burn out BB 550's what is the problem burning out a 550(ish) motor?

As for inspection, relax the restriction and base it off of simple criteria (like Adams idea). Don't change anything in the control or electrical system. You could even limit the motors to the 20 amp circuits like the custom circuit rules if that is a concern.

And you'll get a new arms race of teams trying to source the most optimal (powerful, power density, power/weight ratio, whatever criteria you want) motor. Could be hard to find, or prohibitively expensive for lower resource teams to obtain; many of which won't even know the motor exists. This would just widen the already large disparity between the top and the bottom of FRC teams.