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Originally Posted by DampRobot
Add about .003" to the center distance between gears in gearboxes. It can help the gearboxes run well with the lower quality gears and the practically non-existent wear-in-times that FRC sees.
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Or use this handy dandy calculator from WCP which adds things in for you.
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Originally Posted by PayneTrain
If you only focus on one thing for a robot, make it the drive train. There is a wealth of information available concerning them over the decades of competition. It's a lot easier to improve, swap out, or just lightly iterate on a game-specific mechanism than scrap a drive base mid-season. You get a passable one out of the box with easy upgrades available to peruse through online. Plenty of universal systems like WCD and other configurations are available to easily adapt to the current year's limits, and there is a design calculator there to let you plug and play to figure out if your idea will work. It's a lot of little things you can do on a drive base to make a big impact.
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At the same time, any drivetrain that takes longer than 2-3 days to finish is more complex than you need (this ignores swerve because if you can only focus on one part of your robot, you shouldn't be doing swerve). The Kitbot on Steroids can be built in a half an hour if a team knows what they're doing, and it's not hard to read up how. 3 days for any custom drive should be plenty.