Posted by Thomas A. Frank.
Engineer on team #121, The Islanders/Rhode Warrior, from Middletown (RI) High School and Naval Undersea Warfare Center.
Posted on 2/8/2000 10:02 AM MST
In Reply to: Way to Go! No CVT for us
posted by Andy Baker on 2/8/2000 7:21 AM MST:
: We were trying to go with a CVT (continuously variable transmission)... but without success. We bailed on the CVT due to some many losses in the system. It works, but there is too much friction and some binding between the toroidal plates.
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Dear Dodd;
I find the fact that you folks built a prototype and had it working is amazing in itself! I anxiously look forward to seeing it.
We thought about such things for a few brief moments, and realized that it was well beyond our ability to construct in the time available, and went for conventional.
That teams are even considering such things, much less building them and trying them out, is what brings me back to FIRST year after year. It's sort of like being inside a living version of Popular Science from the 50's and 60's...FIRST demonstrates quite clearly the amazing things that can happen when the creative talents of engineering community are unleashed.
Tom Frank