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Originally Posted by Karthik
Wow, it sure will be weird being on the other side.
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You and Ian can always do something about that you know
. your swerve/strafe drive is pretty freaking impressive too.
Thanks everyone for the commentary. Let me just address a few things. First, you are all welcome to take a look at the regionals, I'd be happy to explain it, and get into an argument as to why it'll work
. From experience, we have found that blowing breakers is very rare, and in fact we never did last year, despite having a non-shifting three-motor box. While there are hungrier F-Ps this year, we believe the ability to shift in conjunction with the backup battery keeping our controller on, will allow us to not overtax ourselves in matches.
max is absolutely correct in saying that the three motors should not peak, because their current draw at that level is far higher than the motors will ever take. The gears are optomized and mated in such a way that something near the peak efficiency of each motor is used. The current is equally distributed
. As a result, we will be able to get slightly more pushing power at the same amount of draw, divided over three motors; it won't be a full 'motor's worth' more, but it'll be enough to seriously mess with teams that thought they were powerful. According to the current curves, after about 10-15 seconds at stall in high gear, our robot will probably nuke itself, but we do not expect this to happen in normal match activities. It was also mentioned that versus a two-motor gearbox, we are not overtaxing our breakers, but the other robot will be. We will prevail. Bottom line, six-motor drive is a tried and true method for Woburn (although I have seen two other teams do it). Ask anyone at West Michigan or Toronto and they'll agree. Just
try pushing us.
As it happens, we don't believe a huge amount of pushing will occur this year. That doesn't mean in our minds that we shouldn't be able to do it. Maybe more on the gearbox later from the source, but we'd like to keep a little mystery
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