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Originally Posted by aklego
Makes sense to me and I'd like to see it be allowed next year. Servos will twitch if the voltage sags when a DC motor is heavily loaded. It was a problem that gave my team fits during Hot Shot! as it the twitch was enough to alter the aim of their whiffle ball aiming mechanism.
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At the STL kickoff event at the Science Center they made out the TETRIX V2 motors to be the most fantastic things ever, and yes in some ways they are better, but they said the people at TETRIX (Or Pitsco or the FTC GDC or wherever) couldn't burn them out... We have burned out three and shattered a gear on another already (State Regional hasn't even happened yet) and in the other two years we have been in FTC, we have only burned out two.Maybe we are being really hard on them, but I had such high hopes for the new motors.
On the V3s it would be FANTASTIC if they could add a built in, adjustable torque slip clutch to the gearbox. That would reduce a LOT of the problems. And take a cue from the CIMs and make the whole motor the same circumference so we don't only have like an inch and a half to mount it. (Someone from Pitsco please see this!)