View Single Post
  #10   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 10-01-2014, 04:05
GarrettF2395's Avatar
GarrettF2395 GarrettF2395 is offline
Mentor
AKA: Sierra 117
FRC #2395
Team Role: RoboCoach
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Rookie Year: 2008
Location: Oklahoma city
Posts: 217
GarrettF2395 is a glorious beacon of lightGarrettF2395 is a glorious beacon of lightGarrettF2395 is a glorious beacon of lightGarrettF2395 is a glorious beacon of lightGarrettF2395 is a glorious beacon of light
Send a message via Yahoo to GarrettF2395
Re: How to make a Neutral gear with BallShifters?

Quote:
Originally Posted by craigboez View Post
There are 6 balls within the ball shifter, three for each of the two shifting gears that engage. If you remove the three balls for one of the gears, that gear will never engage, effectively leaving you with a neutral position.
My team did this at Thursday meeting for our prototypes. However, the transmission had some difficulty properly engaging and disengaging.
We were running it without load and shifting by hand.

We're going to take it apart tomorrow and see if we notice anything buggy in the system.
If that still doesn't work, plan B is to create a neutral for our super shifters.
__________________

https://twitter.com/TeamNinjaMunkee

FRC 2395: Team captain 2008-2009, Design mentor 2010-2011, Lead design and strategy mentor 2012-Present