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Re: Urgent! How many motors can we use?

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
engineers work in orders of magnitude, so 4X faster is 'about the same speed'

10X faster or slower is 'significantly different' :c)
It depends on where you work. I work in a lab in research and 4X can be huge. For the purposes of FIRST, you still would have much greater efficiency and overall effectiveness if you gear down the CIMs to match the Drills