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Unread 09-01-2005, 11:59
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Re: 2005 Drivetrains

I think that this year is the first year i am going to consider a 2 speed gearbox. the resoning is you need to have an extremely fast robot being able speed aroud to keep the stacks owned by your team but at the same time with so many robots on the field you will get into a pushing match every round. so for those 2 reasons i will say that you need both a powerful and fast drive.

the one interesting thing is that first gave a very powerful drivetrain this year and i think that my drive will be designed to be faster in high gear and more powerful in low then that because i see many teams using that stock gearbox this year
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