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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
Oooh... that should've been obvious to me. Why do you recheck the servos before each match? do they tend to drift or something like that?
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It's the lever attached from servo to shift collar that tends to get loose. We use these small threaded shafts with what I'd just call a turnbuckle (probably not the right word) on them. You can get them from a hobby store that carries R/C airplanes. As they loosen,we tend to not quite make 3rd - accompained by a lovely grinding noise - HA! Also, since competition mode sends out a pwm of 127, we check to see that the 'bot is in 2nd prior to each match. It avoids some ratcheting when autonomous starts. Setting the appropriate gear in auto mode is just one of the things we need to program for. The Dewalts do quite nicely with shift-on-the-fly, so that's not a huge deal.