|
Re: Variable Speed Gearboxes?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevin Ainsworth
In the end, an FRC dual transmission tank drive train is the lightest, least complicated option.
|
Many clever mechanical devices lose their appeal when autonomy* is required.
----------
* That annoying burden of pulling one's own weight while carrying one's own energy supply.
__________________
Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
|