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Originally Posted by JesseK
I can't stress this tool enough. The biggest thing we gained from using this tool was figuring out why we were pulling so much current on our '07 robot. To alleviate this, in '08 we used 2 CIMs per side in order to facilitate pushing through traffic along with a AM Super Shifter. 23 amps sustained per motor ('08 low gear) is ALOT better than 65 amps when pushing ('07 single speed)...
I also fourth the AM recommendation. I just found a local machine shop who may be able to do custom gearboxes for us in future years but until we reach a deal in coming months, we plan on sticking with AM shifting gearboxes. The problem we had this year was an error on our part and the AM rep in Atlanta stuck with us until we found the issue.
Great parts, even greater people.
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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
I would ask that shop to make other parts for the robot you can not buy rather than gearboxes you can get from AM.
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Or, alternatively, have them make the parts for your gearboxes that you can't get from AndyMark. If their parts fit some of your design (say, your shifting mechanism), plop those into Inventor and save your machine shop some work. Less-stressed resources are happy resources, in past experience.