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Originally Posted by JVN
PS - Paul, Ether & Richard, please don't revoke my "allowed to talk about motors" privileges.
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There is a rich tradition in engineering of celebrating prolific contributors by naming standard physical units after them. For example, the unit of electrical capacitance is named for Michael Faraday, and the unit of power transfer/conversion is named for James Watt.
I propose naming the fundamental unit of FRC drivetrain "oomf" in honor of JVN.
Let's say the "oomf" of a well designed four CIM drivetrain is one JVN. Then by the approximation John proposed above, a well designed drivetrain with four CIMs and two mini-CIMs will deliver 1.3 JVN of "oomf", while a well designed six CIM drivetrain is good for 1.5 JVN.
Your oomf may vary.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)