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Re: gear ratio

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Originally Posted by Dick Linn View Post
Does anyone have some actual numbers of how fast their robot managed to go as a percentage of the max unloaded motor RPM? I mean as-built with gearbox loss, etc. I'm not interested in feet/sec. figures. I was just wondering if something like 80% was realistic.
It's pretty close. 968 did a test of actual ground speed vs calculated theoretical speed of our 2008 robot. The actual speed was approximately 80% of the no load 100% efficiency speed.
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