Banebot Transmission Issues

[Gdeaver]

Planetary gear boxes in similar form factor to the banes transmissions are used for motion control in industrial applications. They are extremely robust and typically last for years running under heavy continuous loads. The problem is this quality costs some serious money. I believe the entry price for the small ones is around 300$. Beyond what most teams want to invest in transmissions. The banesbot trans are affordable and something has to be given up to get in their price range. The first time I got my hands on the 56 trans I took it apart all the way. After that inspection, our team made the decision to spend part of our minuscule budget on 2 Andy mark transmissions. I don't think our team will regret it. I've seen some team with monster traction wheels and the banesbot transmissions. They are setting them selves up for problems. Used with the KOP wheel may be acceptable.

We may want precision planetary gear heads with electronically commuted brushless dc motors and fully programmable intelligent speed controllers and a micro itx robot controller with a high level development environment. But, our budgets allow for brushed dc motors, spur gear boxes, dumb speed controllers, PIC based microcontroller robot controller, and easy-c - mplab development environment.