Thread: How many drive motors did you use (per side) this year?
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Re: How many drive motors did you use (per side) this year?
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Originally Posted by JVN
That was just our fall prototype.
We designed a prototype drive with 6 motors, because we figured it was much easier to "remove" motors from a design than design in more motors. This gave us a nice base design to build off of during the 6 weeks.

Our actual competition robot used only 1 Chiaphua per side. It was originally designed for 1 Chip and 1 FP, but after testing it was decided the FP motors weren't worth it.

2 chips, 3 competitions, no problems.

John
It was still cool to look at.
how many times did you end up switching gears durring a compition?