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Originally Posted by jonathan lall
... 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  . |
I don't think the chain might break, but there's always a small possibility in low gear... Like last year for example, our three motor gearbox with our 25 chain was really weak... If you've seen us last year, every few matches, there was at least one chain broken and 3 at one point I think.
Good luck to everyone with their bot with only 6 days left...