Using two CIMs in the Banebots Transmission

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by MikeJ675

My thoughts on that was that for not much extra cost(about $90), you can get much greater reliability by just getting two more gearboxes.

With a relatively untested gearbox, I'd be hesitant to put two cim's through a single one. Two separate gear boxes per side will reduce the strain on the gears in each gearbox and provide at least some power on each side even if a gearbox fails.

Any weight difference between the adapter weight and the gearboxes could probably be made up with less chain use.

While the gear box is untested in FIRST is is my understanding that they are quite popular in battle bots and other competitions.

Our team however invested in some AM 2 speeds and I think we will be using them again.