To Brick or Not To Brick?

[Coach#3536]

Many a Motors has "smoked" this season in the quest for elevation and speed. The makers of the Textrix motors are feeling good about the sales figures I am certain. We have eaten 3 sets, but we did it just by running the snot out of them in testing.

There has also been many threads about the trigger shinanagins from the more than a few light weights not lifting the plates or timing off because the use of the simple switch forgot to put in some type of delay i.e spring or leader pin. Unlike alot of matches we saw, if our bot climbed past the 18" line the light was going off...no matter what pole...Period.

If you are a rookie team that has limited funding, and the possibility of smoking a bunch of motors "before you get it right" is not a viable option. The NXT model isnt a bad move. Few can argue how robust our NXT Mini-bot was. It climbed even after some outragious hits. Now we do agree that the added weight is a speed issue. You will have to go slower when it comes to the gearing required to elevate the mass of the NXT style.

The decision is not as cut and dry as some want it to be.....And you know what? That is what makes this fun.