NeveRest 60 in FRC

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by EricDrost

I can't imagine it would be illegal as swapping the gearhead isn't an electrical modification. I sincerely hope this is legal because the two most common failures are gearhead failures, not motor failures.


My recommendation to any team using these motors in FRC (or FTC) is to remove the gearhead/buy the version without the gearhead. As others have said, these motors integrate very well into VersaPlanetary gearboxes. We put 2 of our 8 NeverRest motors into VP gearheads last season and experienced zero failures with them. This season we have put every single motor on the robot into a VP and have had zero failures so far.

TL;DR: The motors are pretty good but replace the gearhead for serious use.

There's precedent - the Window and Globe motors both had what FIRST deemed "integral" reductions on them and we were not allowed to use the motors w/o the reductions. Could have a similar ruling here. That being said, if the NR60s are allowed I'd hope the 20s and 40s would be too.