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Originally Posted by BrendanB
Going over the bump in high gear is fun too! For a moment it felt like Dukes of Hazard which was cool before the image of your robot mangled and broken in a heap fills your head! 
We've done that move three times this season with only a few surface scratches! |
Only three times?
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If you run a turbo mode, you are limiting your normal non-turbo driving in one of two ways:
-If you just divide/multiply the output by a constant, you're limiting the motor to substantially less mechanical power than it is capable of, and your acceleration will be worse in slow mode, due to reduced voltage, in addition to the high gearing.
-If you actually speed-control to a lower output speed, you will still maintain the acceleration of the actual gear but your drivers will still be limited. This is OK in some cases, depending on what you are trying to do, but you are still limited to the acceleration of the actual gear.
So, a turbo button is just limiting the drivers. It won't allow you to gear any faster, because your acceleration will suffer in non-turbo mode. My recommendation is to either gear a single-speed down to the speed you actually want to drive at, or run a real shifter.