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Re: What was your teams worst expierence during competition?

how Aerial assist robot could never shoot (release the dog gear) that held down out shooter, turns out after everyone on our team gave up to determine what caused it, me and my brother looked into it and saw that the piston that retracted the dog gear back, was mounted at a angle so it wasn't pulling straight back, instead it bound, also the swerve drive we used never worked and kept frying the turning motors (window motors) My brother and i also figured that one out as well lol, turns out that the POT we used to get the position on the wheels where cheap one, as they said on the package, "Accurate within 20% of overall value" meaning that when at the 0 mark you could be plus or minus 20% of 0, this caused the motors to always try to readjust them selfs and eventually burn out, also our robot wouldnt connect properly to the game fields, ther was at least 5 sec to 20 sec delay from controller to robot, we had TI look at our labview cade and they said everything was correct and they didn't know what was going on and that they would send this straight up to HQ, All in all it was a TERRIBLE season though one of the most insightful that I've been apart of.
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