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Re: Stepper Motors
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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
Please, walk through the selection of a stepper motor and brushed motor for an elevator for this years game. You'll see that you end up with a giant stepper motor (or you'll leave yourself vulnerable to missing counts due to friction/wind blowing/jammed tote/whatever).
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Clearly, steppers are not suitable for the entire problem space of FRC motion control. You're not going to lift a tote with one.
That doesn't mean that they aren't very well-suited for certain parts of it. Not all of FRC is lifting totes.
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