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Re: Ways to Handle Gears

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Originally Posted by Akash Shah View Post
What if the roll was a passive system? Like if the gear were to go from the feeder station to roll across the field with no motors? This is all hypothetical.
That was one of our two design ideas to get all the gears in on trip to our end, went far (in my mind) until a student reminded me of G24 so we went with less out of the box Plan A...the gear rolling was a potential chokehold strategy...serves several great purposes including junking up their gear retrieval area with 18 gears, Darn.
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