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That's pretty sick. Nice job. "ludicrous speed" lmao

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I like! I imagine Vex become very very competitive this season.

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Thats awsome Chuck, good job 1712.

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Nice! :D
Looks pretty slick.
It's a shame FIRST is going away from vex..

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I think I let teams use too many motors:ahh:


also I feel that I just found the drive for my robot at the rachacha :p j/k

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How long does it take to shift?

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I don't have an exact time, but not that long I would say... The spacing between gears is roughly 1/32", so once it's out of one gear, it's already engaging the other.

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I assume that's slightly exaggerated, and it doesn't actually engage both gears at the same time?

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Wow... nice shifter... is that a airplne servo up top or a motor? Seems to be a lot of gear reduction for the gear-reduction-changer.

Wow... Ludicrous Speed... I feel like watching Spaceballs now... :]

-q

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It's another motor on top. The reasoning for the extra reduction is because just driving the worm gear off the motor wasn't a fast enough shift for us, but with the 1:3 reduction before the worm reduction our shift is much nicer.


On a side note, brownie points if anyone can get the sand-crawler reference...:D

-Chuck

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Let me see if I can get a better pic of the spacing for you... they both don't engage at the same time, but the time from one gear to the next is very short.

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I'm assuming you're referring to the incredibly slow Jawa sand-crawlers from Star Wars?

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illegal.

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Care to elaborate on that? :confused: