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Originally Posted by inkling16
I don't know of any teams that can just "slap on a shifter" without any substantial time commitment from their build team. Additionally, shifting necessitates both more coding time and more practice time for the drivers. Shifting is a tradeoff, just like every other part of the robot. No robot will instantly just become better if a shifter is just slapped onto it.
Maybe I am reading too much into your words asid, but it seems to me that you believe that every robot would instantly just be better if a shifter were used instead of a single-speed. On a team with infinite resources, this might be the case, but on my team at least, we always have to make tradeoffs in our designs, and we will likely not be using a shifting gearbox next year so that we can focus on other aspects of our robot.
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Arguably you can slap one of these on just as easily as slapping on a single speed.
http://www.vexrobotics.com/vexpro/ge...llshifter.html