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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
I certainly understand your concern, but I believe that you will be just fine.
#1 the failure is not instantenous, but rather works itself overtime. The rate that it fails is a function of robot design (heavier robots with grippier tires make things worse) and robot driving (repeated rapid changes increase the rate). There are many many robots out there that would never know there was any issue with these transmissions if they we did not tell them (even 2-CIM per side teams).
#2 the fialure only hurts the carrier, not the rest of the transmission. This will allow teams to drive as is and implement the solution when we finally get to that point. (we are working out the details -- stay tuned).
#3 while we are still working out the details of exactly what is need to address the problem, the early reports from teams that have implemented various bit of the plan have been very encouraging. Again, let me repeat that FIRST and Banebots are very much committed to working with teams to address this problem in a timely manner.
Stay tuned.
Joe J.
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Joe - thanks for those words.
I have read through ALL of the posts and see that many people (with FAR more brain cells than I have in this area) are working on the problem and a re VERY motivated to come up with a reasonable solution.
Our robot is definately going to fall into the "heavy" category and, we are using the High Traction wheels from IFI along with a set of the Coolie-Dualie Wheels from AndyMark. We may consider adding some "software" to our program to limit the forward/backward transitions to try and prevent some of the potential for damage.
In the meantime, our team is going to at least talk about some Risk Mitigation strategies today and come up with a "Plan B".
Keep plugging away, am sure there are a LOT of teams all in the same boat.