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Originally Posted by Mark Sheridan
Yes we do this, I think most teams with practice bots do this. its great to get this info while practicing. Prior to the 2015 San Diego regional, we had about 200 practice matches over 2 weeks. We almost always use the match timer to keep the batteries in good condition. We caught an issue with our RC carriage wearing out its bearing mounts and were able to implement a solution for our comp bot. It also gave use info on the life cycle of our intake wheels, and the stacker disk brake.
I think our comp bot had about 90 matches this year for comparison.
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469 does the same; I definitely concur/encourage teams who have a practice bot to practice with the match timer set in the driver station application. In 2012, we caught the screw shearing problem in the Supershifters early in the season. We had a fix practiced and in place, but the competition bot shifters never failed until the offseason. Nearly every year, we knew where the "problem" areas of the robot were and what parts to make many spares of/practice fixing.