AndyMark Teasing us

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by Cory

The most likely reason is that it's because AM is going to be the official supplier of kit motors for FIRST, but it would be a mistake to assume so.

Actually I would say that the most likely reason he is carrying cims is because most of his gearboxes are designed to use them. I thought a long time ago he should have done this so people outside of FIRST could buy a toughbox and motor for it in the same place.

As for Cims in the kit, I would be surprised if they weren't there but am making no assumptions. The CIM motors are ordered and labeled specifically for FRC and it wouldn't take much for FIRST to pick a different motor from the same manufacturer. That being said there are many things that changing the main drive motors effects, such as the electronics, gearboxes, wheels, required field robustness, etc. I would suspect that if a change of the motors occurs it will be a minor shift with little differences like mounting; something like this would be easy to modify existing gearbox design for.