[nparikh]

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

The circuit breakers tripped. In most of the gearboxes you can usually make a wedge or something to prevent the shifting (at least the manual means).

The 03 bot was geared to be a little faster but we hoped that we could use the Dewalts as a replacement with little loss of speed. Instead of making a sophisticated gearbox and adding the Dewalts to it we hoped to bypass the need for two nested gearboxes. After all, why would we want to add them if we were building a gearbox anyway? (no need to reply) The Dewalts simply didnt function to our requirements.

For many teams these might be the answer to their needs. It depends on how hard you press them.

WC

Steve + Corey = a new wave in design to figure out how to keep them from breaking our robots. But like someone said..variable wheel size isn't a bad idea