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Unread 01-05-2014, 21:54
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AKA: Lyle Cheatham
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Re: [FTC]: New Team / New Opportunity

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Originally Posted by StillDefective View Post
The gears in the gearboxes must have been built with a sub-par metal because when we killed gearboxes and opened them there were teeth scattered around the case and one of the gears was broken. And it was the same one every time...
I would have to agree with this. We have one high stress motor position on the robot (it was a core part that we couldn't really redesign mid season) that would kill about a V1 in about a month, but when we put a V2 on it it died in less than a match. That's right, at about 40 seconds left with a new motor it was already chewed up. I will admit, a large part of this was our design, but at the same time there should not be that large of a difference in reliability of the 2 motors.
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