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Re: Minibot climb rate

I have a hard time believing a lot of these times (no pun intended). I really don't think this many teams could reach a time of under 3 seconds already unless you've only focused on the minibot. i also believe that
A. Some people have been hitting stop on their stopwatches before it reaches the top
B. The "2 second minibot"'s will probably be hard to deploy.
C. Those minibot's do not/ cannot consistently get under 3 seconds.
Right now our best time is 3.57 seconds. Weight is roughly 4 pounds, consisting of two motors, chains, surgical tubing, wheels, etc.
Very very very reliable deployment, now just working on deploying mechanism placement on the bot.
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