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Re: Is this a safe gearbox?

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
That is a good gearbox, but you do NOT want your robot to go 20 ft/s. You really, really won't be happy with the results. 20 ft/s is far too fast to control easily. You'll find yourself constantly shifting into low gear to do pretty much anything. You should really aim for a top speed of no more than 14 ft/s.
I know we went for 15fps in 2014 and it was quite easy to control. Last year we geared for 15fps and did ok as well, although we did end up running a software speed cap for when we held stacks.
With sufficient driver practice you can go up quite high. I would just worry about brownouts from drawing too much current.
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