Sonic Shifter - recent feedback?

[cbale2000]

Originally Posted by PurpleInk

Our history with the 3 cim ball shifter:

What lubricant were you using and what was the overall reductions in your drive system (including wheel size)?

IMO our 2014 robot put it's 3 CIM Ball shifters through far more abuse than the average team and the gears still look as good as new. For that matter, I've yet to see so much as a chipped tooth on any of the over 75 various Vex Pro gears we've used on competition robots in the past two years.

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

That's not what the Product Page says: Will be shipped with an am-3132 encoder pre-installed.

Good catch, not sure how I missed that, I did look at the page. Still getting used to the new AM site layout I guess.

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

If you consider the included encoder, and the fact that the sonic shifter does ratios that require the 3rd stage on the ballshifter, the price difference is much smaller. $215 for the ball shifter + 40 for an encoder vs 279 for the Sonic Shifter. Weight does favor the ball shifter.

True the difference is smaller in certain configurations, but still less regardless, and Sonic Shifters doesn't really offer anything the Ball Shifters don't also (save a few gear ratios perhaps), so if you can still save some money and weight, why not?