I’m fairly new to FRC and someone asked me what motors we used on our robot. I responded to them and I said we used Talon SRX motors.
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We all make mistakes, but assuming you were correct in the motor controllers, you narrowed it down to a brushed motor as the Falcons use the Talon FX and Neos use the Spark Max. I’m guessing you were using a CIM motor? If so, then you provided all the necessary information to make an educated guess.
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Don’t worry about it. My team’s programmers always refer to Falcons by motor controller (call them Talons).
Also, welcome to CD.
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When i was a fairly new person i didn’t even know what a motor controller is, so you probably know more
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Such a cardinal sin. I don’t think you’ll ever be forgiven among FRC students, mentors, volunteers and employees. I think the best course of action at this time is to issue a formal apology to the team and team member in which you told that DISPICIABLE and MALICIOUS piece of FALSE INFORMATION. Reflect on your actions Raiceu. Be better. /j
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Don’t worry I used to call our CIM motors talons my freshmen year since as a programmer that’s all they were. Everyone makes mistakes like that.
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Found the programmer.
I’d be a lot more worried if it was your 4th season and you made that mistake. Go forth and learn about many motors and their many controllers.
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Trust me, more than you have made the mistake, and most of them still don’t know they made the mistake yet.
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I personally would guess 775 pro mostly because those are the only non-falcon we use, but CIM is also a good guess lol. Now I’m curious what the motor actually was! 
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Back in the days of Stronghold, I picked up this exchange from a teammate answering pit scout questions.
“Do you have pneumatic wheels?”
“No, we have tires.”
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Just don’t refer to pneumatic cylinders as piston and you will be good.
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I’ve used it interchangeably…
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So you are one of those. 
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“Yeah so we have our grabber intake powered by pneumatics on each side, and when we actuate the pistons, they push the arms out like so”
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“Have we tried flashing the cRio?”
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I can never keep straight if we’re using cRio or RoboRio, so I just call it “the brain”
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There are still plenty of CIMs/Falcon SRXs out there, especially when veteran teams make the switch to brushless and donate their old motors and (higher-end) speed controllers to lower-resource teams.
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You don’t want to know some of the things I’ve called the various electrical or even mechanical components on a robot.
And this was my 5th year in FRC…
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fwiw, it’s been nearly 10 years since the cRIO was in use…
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