Where to purchase a FR801-001 CIM?

Technical Motors
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We’re ready to order parts, and alas I’ve discovered that finding the exact CIM motor that’s legal in 2009 is harder than usual. Andymark carries CIMS (http://www.andymark.biz/am-0255.html), yet the picture and the text states that their CIMs are model # BI802-001A.

Banebots.com says that these are the ‘FIRST legal’ CIMs but I want to see the label before I purchase. (http://banebots.com/pc/MOTOR-BRUSH/M4-R0062-12)

Technically the model # on the 2008 CIMs are FR801-001, but the rules state that we’re not allowed to use them. Being that there are serial #'s on them that are different from the 2009 CIMs, I don’t want to chance it.

So in order to stay within the rules, regardless of what we need the CIMs for, where can we purchase additional 2009 FR801-001 CIMs?

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Both the AndyMark- and BaneBots-sourced CIM motors carry the M4-R0062-12 model number, and are therefore legal for 2009. (AndyMark pictures a motor with the number BI802-001A and the number M4-R0062-12. BaneBots states that the model is M4-R0062-12. To me, those are committments to offer FIRST-legal parts.)

As I understand it, the ones marked “FIRST Robotics” are made for FIRST, and the ones marked “M4-R0062-12” are made for BaneBots (that’s a BaneBots part number). I don’t believe that these motors are made for anyone else.

IFI is out of stock of the FR801-001 motors, and I don’t know of any other suppliers for them.

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Here are a few more sources for CIM’s:
http://www.trossenrobotics.com/store/p/5142-FIRST-CIM-Motor.aspx#
http://www.robotshop.ca/banebots-first-cim-motor.html

-Vivek

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Ah, was looking at the wrong line number :o