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Re: Power of Victor Brake

Brake-ing your victors can also assist your drivetrain to position a bit more accurately.
My question is (and I know this has been brought up before) what is the legality of flipping between brake and coast mode in-match, and how can this be done (I recall threads where people were talking ideas for this. )
I would assume you could build a custom circuit to do this easily..
The reason I ask is because our drivetrain is amazing with braking mode on. Very precise, fluid movement, etc.
But, we've been discussing the whole strategy debate of giong for the ramp when we remembered our strategy in '03.
In '03, our bot was set to coast by default, and at the last seconds in te match, we had the system such that we gunned it for the ramp, and coasted up into position, sometimes even after the buzzer. (just by a bit)
We've been talking of doing this this year, but would like to switch between coast and brake. Any ideas?
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