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Re: Sonic Shifter - recent feedback?
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Originally Posted by BoilerMentor
Please implement automatic shifting regardless of which transmission you use. With the worry of brown-out and observations during 2014 with people blowing 120 amp breakers I think it's a must. Drivers generally don't use manual shifting when they should. It's hard to teach and takes a ton of experience to learn to use without hesitation. Ultimately in an intensive enough competition situation they will forget.
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In 2013, we selected your team at the Boilermaker regional because we saw 1st hand what a 3 CIM drive could do on defense. After that 1 match where our robot almost got destroyed, I said we needed this team on our alliance.
Its nice to hear about your continued success in using the same setup in subsequent years.
However, I would respectfully disagree on the automatic shifting. We tried it in 3 different seasons and will never ever go back to it. In every instance, it failed/or started to wear heavily on some parts causing shifting problems. We got tired of the constant checking and paranoia that it would fail in a match.
We are aware of some of the issues that was discussed in this thread due to personal experience.
Modifications we have done in-house the past 2 seasons to our AM Supershifter, are using some VEXPro Aluminum gears and the pancake shifters instead of the ones that come with the AM or WCP ones.
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Last edited by waialua359 : 06-01-2016 at 03:40.
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