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Re: Andymark Planetary Transmission...

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Originally Posted by qwertyuiop[]\ View Post
Banebots planetary is definetly super reliable. my team has reused the same 4 gearboxes for drivetrain on our robot for 3 years running. not once have we experienced any problem. People just have a bias against banebots because of a bad gearbox along time ago(maybe not that long). But people who think banebots have zero quality really are just close minded to the new gearboxes that they have made.
Steve, were you around during the whole plate-bending-in-half experience that went on with the banebots transmissions (I believe it was in '07)?

In a competition like FIRST where you pay thousands of dollars to enter, and then have 12 matches total during a regional, a single component failure is a major major thing for most teams.

A large number of the banebots transmissions failed, some catastrophically. I can't imagine the cost of that if your translated that into lost design, engineering and playing time for all those many many teams that used the gearboxes in the KOP.

On top of that, Banebots compounded the issue with very poor customer service.

Banebots may be a very good company now, but once you've been severely burned by a company's components, there are very few people who would go back and try them again just to see if they've improved.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...=banebots+fail
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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...=banebots+fail

I harbor no ill will towards banebots.... but will be a long long time before I ever consider another one of their products.
 


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