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Re: Fans/Propellers - Are you doing them?

We were speculating and conducting tests on a few different types of fans, and a small prop. Although we found out that we could nearly double our thrust with 3 different fans if they were all on the robot, it wouldn't leave any room or weight for any type of successful manipulator. We decided that we are not using fans
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