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Re: Passive vs Active Gearing

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Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss View Post
I'm actually more interested in seeing how many teams have active systems for retrieving the Gear, not placing it.
Yes I'm interested in this as well. We found that an active receiver from the station is far superior to a passive funnel. Just giving the gear a little bit of force downwards is going to help seat it even in a box and can correct for misalignment.

Regarding active placers, we decided that that's also very beneficial. I think someone else in the thread said that there are tradeoffs, but we managed to package an active placer in a volume smaller than many teams passive systems.


In my opinion, I think all the high-level gear bots are going to be able to dump the gear the instant the peg gets in the gear.
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