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Re: Transmissions Effective in This Year's Game?
We designed and built our own transmissions, each one powered by two CIM motors. In my opinion these two-speed, shift on the fly transmissions, combined with our Breco-flex tracks were critical in winning two regional competitions.
Our high speed was about 12 ft per second, and it gave us the ability to consistently get to any goal that we needed to, while averaging more than 5 tetras a match.
With the ability to score as well as we could (relative to our regionals), a lot of teams decided to play defensively against us, and that is where the low gear came into play. We generated quite a buzz among the other teams at the Waterloo regional when we showed that we could hold our own in a shoving match with our good friends from Truck Town. Some people may also recall that during our second practice match on Galileo last week we pushed 254 and 469 across the field at the same time.
Like I said above, I absolutely loved our transmissions, they definitely made my job as field coach a little bit easier.
BTW, I loved all three of the above mentioned robots, congrats to 254 on winning our division and ending the season as Championship finalists.
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