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Re: Vex Pro Ball Shifter Questions

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Originally Posted by yash101 View Post
With a linear servo setup, the problem is that you need to be at a complete stop to shift, which rids you of the point in having a shifter. You would typically use the shifters to accelerate quickly, and then accelerate slowly, to a higher max speed!
That's actually the problem with ANY servo setup, or so I hear. I think 330 tried servos on a shifter back when I was a student, but never on a competition robot; we used pneumatics on EVERY shifter we had (drill motor trannies and AM Gen2s).
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