
09-04-2014, 14:17
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Engineering Mentor
AKA: Brian O'Sullivan
 FRC #4561 (TerrorBytes)
Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Rookie Year: 2002
Location: Research Triangle Park, NC
Posts: 914
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Re: Main breaker tripping, dead CIM
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Originally Posted by Rob Stehlik
For the past three years we have been using a spreadsheet that was made by the lead mentor of 294. It's probably posted on CD somewhere, but a quick search didn't find it for me. Anyway, the spreadsheet takes inputs such as weight, wheel diameter, motor parameters, gear ratio, wheel coF, etc, and produces distance vs time graphs among other things. We have it to be an effective tool for optimizing your gear ratio based on the distance you expect to be driving most frequently during matches.
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Off topic, but if you do happen to find that again, I would love to take a look at it.
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