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Re: Need general drive train expertise

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Originally Posted by Oblarg View Post
I have never met a single person who believed that shifting with servos was a good idea.
I'd qualify that by saying that there are plenty of commonly-available servos that can do the job, but they haven't historically been FRC-legal. Digital servos for giant-scale model aircraft would be great, for example. Saving the weight and annoyance of a pneumatic system could make it very worthwhile.

(I've tried shifting a DeWalt-based transmission with FRC-legal servos before. It was terrible.)