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Unread 03-10-2013, 07:10
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Re: Durability in FRC

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Originally Posted by nathannfm View Post
Maybe that wasn't the right phrase, but every team is always fixing something in the pits between matches and it just gets worse as the season goes on. Things you never thought would break break ect...
Last year (our rookie year), during our regional, we never had to fix anything until elims.

Of course, during elims is when our slider attachment method broke. LOL.

At Worlds, we only had 1 instance where we had to repair some damage due to a crash with the pyramid. That doesn't mean we didn't have any problems at Worlds, but ours were almost entirely field/software issues.

For the most part our bot is still running at nearly 100%.

So going back to what the O.P. asked, if you design for durability you should have fewer issues.
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