I need blue motors for comp, when will they be back in stock on the vex website and or do any other sites sell them?
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I’m not sure when they will be re-stocked, but if you have regular motors, you can swap cartridges using the blue motor cartridge here:
P.S. Based on the Euro sign, it is likely European and I’m not sure if it will be accessible to you in America.
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Lol i just checked and they seriously JUST came back in stock. Also the USD to EUR on that website is ~17 USD when vex sells them for 11 USD.
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This is “profit”, lol 
What I was saying was that is that nooby.tech is located in Belgium, and shipping would be ~36 USD, as well as the slight extra for the money.
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Kind of a vent but I honestly wished VEX motors weren’t so unreliable to a point where we have an entire bucket full of vex motors; nothing short of plastic and metal paperweights that do nothing but collect dust simply because we drove the motor for 5 minutes or whatever in a humid area. I mean the motors themselves are nice in practice and they have a lot of potential but it has been like 5-6 years since V5 came out (7-8 if we consider V5 Beta and early stages) and yet we are still having motors die at an absurd rate (on the flip side, at least we aren’t seeing as many frying V5 ports on the Brain which was a massive improvement from back in 2018-2020 years).
Honestly I can tell that there is a lot of care for the V5 system, however I am unsure if it is due to financial or technical limitations that are causing the V5 motors to die at an absurd and waste-like rate.
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Hopefully V6 (or whatever they call it) will adress these issues.
My guess would be that many people already have these types of motors, and the new ones would make some robots better than others, causing these competition issues. I’m not really sure about this yet.
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Anti static spray helps a LOT. Don’t grab electronics after a run… grab the chassis first.
I bought a static electricity meter 2 years ago. I was easily reading 7,000 volts of static on a typical bot on an unsprayed field. After spraying… I only got a hundred volts or less.
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My guess is that natural monopoly in the VRC ecosystem and near monopoly in educational school-based robotics gives them very little incentive to ensure reliability.
I would even dare to say that it is likely an engineered obsolescence on steroids. 
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Ive had motors last 4 years, they are not meant to last forever, and it would only be more expensive if they where made even better quality.
I bought 40 motors when V5 came out, and about 8 since. I aggressively defend careful use of the motors. I have 3 motors in my dead pile – so well under 10% failure over multiple seasons of use.
I suspect that student abuse of motors is a probable cause of motor failure that exceeds VEX production issues.
(My motors do exist in a humid environment, so static has never been an issue.)
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Don’t assume that…
We are in deep south… very humid. And I’m reading many thousand volts of static potential.
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Lol i purposly (with teacher permission) burned one out that had been dropped and the outer shell smashed. i did a 10k+ RPM flywheel (direct 3600, 36-12t) and put in on for 30 seconds, spinning up with a drill to start. We got our 4 inch 30a flexwheel to (what seemes like) double in size. motor got very hot and then stopped. super fun to do and a good sendoff of a motor
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