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Re: pic: Robostangs 548's 2014 Robot

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Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter View Post
4 40-lb CF springs?! Now that is a tremendous amount of force! Do you know if you really need 4 of them (i.e. assuming that do actually improve range, how much does that range get help you?)? Seems like

Looks really slick! I can definitely see the inspiration from the 2011 and 2012 548 robots. Also pretty similar to our design (and many other teams') from a somewhat top-level standpoint.
We originally had 2 of the springs, but we were not happy with the power and bumped it up to 4. I believe it about doubled our range.
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