Thread: Robot doesn't turn in high gear
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Unread 01-04-2007, 22:22
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Re: AM shifter problems
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Originally Posted by JohnMorenski View Post
well i know that this has been posted before but i also know that other teams are having this problem and im sure they want all the info they can get. it seems that we are not getting the full potential out of our andy mark shifters not in low gear, low gear works great, but in high gear. we cannot turn in high gear, the battery voltage on the O/I drops and the motors seem to stall, we are using 1 big cim and 1 little cim on each gearbox any input????

would it be a smarter choice to switch to 2 small cims on each gearbox??

thanks
How fast are you going while in low gear? It sounds like your after-gearbox ratio may be too low... you may need bigger sprockets on your wheels to slow down a bit.

Andy B.