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Originally Posted by M. Krass
Now is the best time to experiment for many teams. We're also focusing a bit on some experimentation this Fall, of course.
I am not too familiar with 33's design for a transmission, so I thought it might be easier, faster and more reliable if you were to eliminate a redundant gear from its design. That said, it may also be more work and more time to make changes to it than not.
I have to be all about practicality because the Fall is the time when the mentors and I get to play around and introduce new ideas to our students, but at the same time, we're spending a lot of money doing so. I need to be able to justify the expense now with tangible benefits later. I can't spend $1000 of the team's money on something that we couldn't possibly use or build in a six-week crunch, y'know?
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We have a two speed variant of team 33's that was the same cost in materials to build, so once again we went for cool; both were cheaper than buying AMs though. There is no sense in making it a 3-speed, it is two 2-speeds in series now. If we gave them inverse ratios we could have [AA,AB, BA, BB] (best way to visualize it i geuss) but AB and BA would be the same ratio, so we just made it 4.
these are being built for about the cost of a single AM shifter, so that's not too bad. Also, we have a lot of excess stock/hardware that could be used during the season now.