Thread: Does Your Team Use 4 CIMs on Your Drive?
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Unread 13-01-2012, 01:10
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Re: Does Your Team Use 4 CIMs on Your Drive?
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Originally Posted by Djur View Post
2 CIMs are lighter than 4 (and their gearboxes), but they offer so much less power that many robots with 4 CIMs can bully 2-CIM robots very easily. While having 4 CIMs isn't strictly necessary -- you can easily drive a tank style bot with only two -- it removes the power inequality with only 2 CIMs and makes a more responsive/maneuverable/powerful robot.
That is my argument FOR 4 CIMs. Because we will be a feeder, we would be spending our whole time on the opponent's side, we need to resist being pushed.
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