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Unread 20-08-2012, 09:45
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Re: "Gearing for speed" criticism

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Originally Posted by quinxorin View Post
You are quite right in that top speed isn't that much of an issue. The standard 12.75:1 Toughbox offers a good speed - going above that is usually pointless. In 2011, my team felt that we needed speed very bad, so we built a super fast drive train. Unfortunately, that was the wrong speed - we could go from one end of the field to the other before our arm could lift up to score. Whoops.
Sounds like your arm was designed incorrectly for your robot's match rhythm.