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Originally Posted by pmangels17
Oh yeah I could see how that could be a problem. It would be an interesting offseason project to see how robust a 775Pro (or other similar motor) based drivetrain could be, and what the full scope of possibility is for them (two-speed? An absurd number of motors? PTO? Other stuff I haven't thought of yet?).
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You guessed our main off season project, honestly the possibilities of running 775pros is just too good for us to ignore.
The biggest disadvantages to a 775 drivetrain that we have noticed is robustness (we still are not 100% sure what happened at Dallas) and not being very good for pushing (can't stay at stall torque for very long). Drivetrain cooling is critical.
Main advantage is that you get the working torque of a CIM in a stupid small and lightweight package. I think our drivebase with no mechanisms attached weighted in under 30 lbs this year, almost half of that being the wheels. The entire robot has varied between sixty and ninety depending on what iteration the mechanisms were on. Want to talk about building an agile robot?
On a completely unrelated note, this discussion has clearly attracted a lot of attention from individual team members.