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Valen
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i'm pretty sure people only had problems when they direct mounted wep on motor. Plan-B had 0 failures except where the disk hit the pulley as i recall.
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I haven't used them in a bot yet, but I would agree with Jake; the motor should be fine mechanically unless you put a large side load on the shaft. Plan B used multi-groove belts that didn't need anywhere the tension of regular v-belts so its motor never had problems. I would look at using a timing belt like Angus (think it's an AT10 size) - very little tension needed. On these motors, I don't think the brushes can be changed - ever. Bigger brushes were just in my 'what if' design.

Scissorhands is almost finished and will be at the first event of the year - its only a broken wrist and slackness that kept it away from Robowars.
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haha, cant wait.. If its engineered anything like Jolt it should be a bot killer Wink

Hopefully I get this thing up and running by that stage, though Im pretty confident I'll be ready by the first tourney!

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