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Re: FRC Mechanical Design Calculator (By Dillon Carey and Aren Hill)

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Awesome job. I think there are some improvements that could be made to the available power transmission components. I realize with Aren's involvement, it's going to be Vex-biased, but there are quite a few AndyMark gears not shown (particularly some of the odd-toothed gears), which can be useful for getting just the right reduction you're looking for.
Adding the AM gear options would be useful. I would definitely still want to separate AM and VEX, to help reduce shipping costs.

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It would also be useful to include dog gears and ball-shifting gears as well.
As you can see, there is a distinct lack of any support in the spreadsheet for multiple speed gearboxes. This is because in my opinion, drive trains only need 1 speed (with verrry rare exception).

That being said, the dog and ball gears can be used on things other than drive trains, so I may add them.

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Also, the motor spec for some of the motors use the published specs rather than the tested specs.
This is definitely something that would be nice. Does anyone happen to have all of the test motor specs in a convenient spreadsheet format?
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