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Re: 8 MINI-CIM SWERVE

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
On top of that, I feel that anyone who mentions 6 CIMs as what led to success in an anecdote should have a gigantic caveat stickied across their post.
4464 used a 6-CIM drive last year, and I'd be the first to add caveats when we talk about the success it brought us (I've detailed the problems we encountered several times on these boards), but it is important to recognize that every single problem you've mentioned is something that can be either mitigated or avoided completely with proper diligence.

Yes, a young, inexperienced team naively going "MORE IS BETTER!" and mindlessly adding motors to their drive can easily do more harm than good, and designing a 6 CIM drive in a way that doesn't run into the mentioned problems is nontrivial (we had to swap our gearing before champs last year, and it wasn't because we hadn't put a lot thought into the gearing we originally had), but I don't think that every 6 CIM success story is necessarily ignoring or downplaying the negatives, or overstating the positives.
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