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Re: Drive Train War
My favorite drivetrain is the one that gets the most practice time, because a drivetrain's single most critical component is the driver. If your team has not fielded a complex drivetrain before, you had better be practicing with a prototype of that drivetrain NOW if you expect to use it for the 2015 season. This is especially true for swerve drivetrains.
My least favorite part of inspecting robots has been repeated visits to the pit of a team that is still trying to get its complex drivetrain working on Friday morning. This has happened far too often, and it is extremely frustrating both for that team and for their alliance partners in early qualifying matches.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
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