56mm Banebot problems @ Championship

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by lynca

We had problems with one of our gearboxes, but this was a new gearbox that we had not added washers as spacers. Once we added the washers everything worked again. We started looking for other banebots 56mm and we found that few teams had issues at the championship. Most of the teams in Galileo had working banebots. Most teams never had a problem thoughout the entire FIRST season because they performed preventive maintenance (adding washers, changing the carrier plates).

I was also impressed with the number of teams who used banebots for the arms and joints for many different functions. Banebots has come into the FIRST community in a much different way then many of the accepted FIRST companies . Overall, banebots should continue to provide for the FIRST community for years to come. What FIRST actually puts into the KIT next year, I think it should have some type of shift mechanism, either dewalts, andymark, or banebots (with shifting).

I have to respectfully disagree. I think the point of including the transmissions is to give underfunded or beginning teams a cheap and basic way of getting a team on the field. They do not need the extra cost of the shifting mechanisms for that.