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Re: Einstein Can-Race Compilation Video
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Originally Posted by RoboChair View Post
I would like to mention that our can grabbers were only operating at 80% power the whole event. We could have run as much as 120% power if we really wanted the cans. Our can grabbers really could dial it to 11, but it would be brutal on the driving mechanism and we deemed the wear and tear to not be worth it and turned out to not need it.
No, you can't dial it to 120% power. By definition that is 100% power.

There are students on this forum that may not understand this statement and it completely misleads them.
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