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Originally Posted by bradleym1559

1559 found a way to use the kit transmission, and then program it to work at one speed and, at the touch of a button, kick into turbo...all software, no need to alter the kit trannys. Worked out nicely...everyone thought we had a slow robot...then hit turbo and it surprised them! We had awesome programmers this year.

Many teams do this and I can't figure out why you would ever want to limit your power. Why not just give it all from the start? Yes a "tubo boost" may give a nice surprise when pressed but during normal times why in the world would you use the program to limit the capabilites of the mechanism? To me that seems foolish.