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Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter
I think it's actually about .65lbs per gearbox... The SuperShifter says 4.0 per gearbox without pneumatics or CIMs. The Sonic Shifter says 3.8 with pneumatic cylinder, 3.35 with just the pneumatic mounting bracket. Doing the apples-to-apples comparison, looks like a weight loss of .65#... which when you include the two gearboxes is a relatively noteworthy 1.3 pounds. Also, looks like the servo shifting is at least 1 pound stronger, so that may make servo shifting more reasonable...
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Ok, thanks. I had a feeling that I overlooked something, it just isn't like AndyMark to try and trick people into thinking there was some big improvement when really it was nothing significant. This makes sense.
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Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter
I'm not really sure that a smaller (than 2.56:1) spread is preferable... I actually think the 2.56:1 spread is too small (although I'm not totally committed to the 4:1 spread); however, it really depends on how you use your gears.
I generally think that your high gear should be what you use most of the time, occasionally switching over to low gear for pushing, traversing field elements, and maybe some careful alignment. When you're only using low gear for these things, it's hard to have a low-gear that's too low. 1519's low gear has been in the 2.5-4 fps range the past two seasons... which initially seems ridiculously slow, but it's actually quite good for those three tasks I mentioned. I would've preferred we use the 4:1 spread so our high gear wasn't underwhelmingly slow though... particularly this year: when we'd switch from FCS to cycles or defense we'd just take too long to get from point A to B!
At any rate, different game strategies should probably lead to different high and low gear preferences...
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Yea, I think this is where a difference in strategies come into play. Your team was a full court shooter and potential cycler, so you really had no reason to slow down unless for those special scenarios. My team had a floor pickup, so we actually spent the majority of our time in low gear because we needed more precision driving work. It also didn't help that we had trouble turning in high gear. However, we had high gear in there if we needed to get to a far away disk, or if we ever decided to cycle. Although actually, I didn't really realize that as you go down to lower speeds in low gear, you get fairly low high gear speeds. 4fps low makes a little over 10fps high gear. So on second thought, maybe the spread is fine after all.