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Re: Team 1658 flying inverse differential swerve Video+CAD files

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Originally Posted by sanelss View Post
when it's not moving it doesn't make any noise. However when we go at low speeds in Differential mode then indeed it is a noisy machine. That's because the top motors are going full speed and the bottom motors are going nearly full speed the opposite direction. So there are a few parts spinning at very high speeds. That's kind of the whole point of the differential system, we can have high power at very low speeds.
Have you thought about trying to optimize this so that the CIM is running at the RPM at which it has the highest power? Or does running them like you describe automatically result in that?
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