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Originally Posted by Joe Finkel
Glad I started this thread: will help us and other teams deciding wich way to go. Now, watching 1629 video, from
my calculations, their top speed schould be somewhere
around 10.5 fps. For some reason they going much slower.
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I doubt that we're going that much slower, although we were playing with the joystick sensitivity througout the day.
Once you try this yourself you'll see that it's not about how fast the wheels can go, but how smoothly you can accelerate and decelerate. Gunning it just makes the wheels spin. It takes a steady hand (and hopefully some good software) to stay controlled. Once the drivers got the hang of steady starts, then the trick was stopping without skidding. There's no letting the stick go, or pulling backwards. The driver needs to allow time and space to slow down under power.
The Trailer actually aided turning by performing a jackknife procedure.
Phil.
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