I went to the killer bees booth at least three or four times to watch their demo box, and sent everyone from my team to see it at least once. Here are some of my impressions:
* Shifting is extremely smooth. They would rev up the gearbox, hit a button and it changed in the blink of an eye.
* Very, very, consistent! I never once saw it malfunction in the slightest. I've heard of issues with other trannies ripping gears apart or freezing up, but this is truly a shift on the fly design.
* Four speeds is probably overkill for most applications, and they weren't using four in their (very successful) robot. The two speed served them very well.
See the FIRSTwiki entry! As soon as this whitepaper goes up I plan to wiki it with a vengence (Copyright permitting, naturally).
