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Re: Team Update #5

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Originally Posted by rocketeer1 View Post
Hey, thats a good idea. Thanks.
I was thinking the same thing...

...but we have to be careful that the fuse fries before the motors do, don't we?

That said, playing around with the MINIBOT (and not having yet found that super-optimal gearing), we have found that even somewhat significant weight changes (.5 lbs or so) seem to have almost no effect on the climb rate...

This might well change when we find that 'optimal gearing', of course.
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