[MrTechCenter]

We used shifting transmissions for the first time this year, and we went with the ball shifters. They worked out really well for us. They were very easy to assemble and use, being our first time working with shifting transmissions. We never really had to do any maintenance on them, though many teams who used them reported that the output shaft would often slip out of place, but was easily fixable with a bit of lock-tite. The biggest benefit to using them was the pushing power, and they're SUPER fast in high gear with two CIMs on each side. We almost tipped a bot at competition by driving in high gear and then switching to low right before we hit them (we did NOT do that again). The only real drawback was that they're a tad bulky and we had a hard time mounting them to our frame and superstructure, but we figured it out quickly. We will definitely be using them again.