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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence
I love the 3-CIM shifter, but the ratio is terrible. 17 ft/s is a great high gear for 3 CIMs, and 5 ft/s is a great low gear for 3 CIMs, but speeds of 9-12 fps low or high gear don't benefit much from the extra CIM.
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The problem with having such an insanely high gear is that the robot will be very hard to control. Another issue with such a huge difference in gearing is momentum. This year, my team used AM supershifters at 5/12fps. If we we were in high gear then switched to low at full speed, we would tip over 75-80% of the time. Imagine how bad it would be going between 17 and 5.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
33 Ran an autoshift in '04 with their 4 speed.
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I'm pretty sure 111 did a 3-speed this year. Also, how could 4 speeds possibly be beneficial, even as an autoshift?