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Re: Transmissions Effective in This Year's Game?
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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Sorry but no you didn't. Power does not come from putting more wheels in your drivetrain or more air in your tires, it comes from putting more motors (or more powerful motors) in your drivetrain. So unless nearly all the teams in your regional had fewer motors or weaker motors in your drivetrain than you did, they were every bit as powerful as you.
Perhaps what you mean is you were able to apply more force on the ground than they?
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I would have to argue that putting more wheels on the ground made a differnce, we faced robots with just as strong drive trains, but because we could put more wheels on the floor we could push people quite well.
Teams like 56 and 103 had beautiful machines with amazing transmissions, however we faced them in pushing matches and in one case when 103 was trying to cap our home row we pushed them sideways into a wall.
What also helped was some gearing down that we did off of the tranny shafts and onto the wheels. That probably made a large differnce over the kit configuration, but still the kit trannys were very well built and could provide lots of power when used correctly.
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