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Re: Automatic shifting software

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Originally Posted by efoote868 View Post
Our team purchased 2 AM servo shifters, so its now the programmers job to mess with them a bit.

I think with what we're going to do is have automatic shifting, once a gear-tooth counter counts to whatever, then decrease motor outputs automatically, and then "gradually" bring them back up to speed, depending where the joy is at.

We also plan to have a switch to manually override the shifting... low, high, auto.

Hope this helps!
Remember, it will take about half a second for the servo shifters to change gears. It seems unless you have a rock solid shifting algorithm, you will be wasting a lot of time on the field going nowhere and may experience quite a bit of "shift shock".