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Re: Team 1425 Drivebase and Wiring

On the motors:
We've always ran paired motors... we find that it actually helps for redundancy in pushing competitions. If one gets its breaker blown, the entire side doesn't go. As for fighting, we get that question a lot, and the answer is always the same: with properly calibrated victors and a decent deadzone, there is little to no fighting, and we are almost always more than capable of pushing any robot all over the place. We stick with what works well for us.

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