Team 4513 presents: Short Circuit

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Originally Posted by asid61

At first I though, "wow, what a nice robot", then I looked closer...
this is the first robot I have ever seen to use throttle motors. Very well done.

Good use of the Denso Throttle motor, it's an asset waiting to be unlocked for many teams

Hopefully this won't be the only one we see this season

We designed a gearbox for the Denso Motor that gives it a 7.5:1 reduction and a 1/2 hex output shaft. We have already donated over 60 of these gearboxes to new and inexperienced teams in 14 different countries and plan to distribute 100 before the end of the season.

Although it is only a low power motor, it is actually very useful once you give it an adequate gear reduction and give it an output shaft that can interface with other FRC specific COTS parts.

There is more information on our website:

http://www.team4613.org/#!redbox/g8y3o