Number of FP Motors

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Removing a stage is going to require shortening the ring gear on the outside of the transmission or removing the planet gears of a stage and locking the Sun/Carrier of one stage to a later stage. Neither is incredibly difficult, but it will take some time. The important thing to remember however is that this isn't going to net you any increase in power. Your mechanism will move something like 3-5 times faster (I haven't looked at the guts of a globe yet) but it will also only provide one-third to one fifth as much torque. You might have better luck speeding up your mechanism by attaching a banebots RS-550 or RS-540 to it, if you have them available. if you're using all 4 CIMS, 2 FPs, and both BBs, then you've effectively exhausted your supply of high powered motors and you'll simply be left with globes, window lifts, etc. However, if I recall the progression of motors correctly, the van door motor often ranks just a bit higher than the globe for power.

The team I used to work with did this. All we did was mill off a stage on the ring gear (the casing), and index 3 holes into the casing. Pull a stage out, slap it back together, three screws/roll pins in, and you've got a 400rpm Globe motor. Quite useful, actually.