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Re: Top Speed

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Originally Posted by Raul
I will say that if we decided to use more powerful motors (the Chips instead of the FP’s) then we could bump up our top speed accordingly. This is why 25’s Evil Machine, which used 6 motors for their drive, was effective at a higher top end speed. But yeah, at those speeds, the drive control sensitivity is very high and thus difficult to control the robot.

Raul
Acctually Raul, team 25 only used 4 motors for our drive, like alot of other teams, we used the Drills in conjunction with CIMs, it was our gearbox that gave us the higher speeds..... who knows what could happen next year

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