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Unread 27-03-2009, 22:16
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Joel Spadin
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Re: Autonomous Start Delay

I don't think we have our robot yet either, but once it returns, we'll take a look. The funny thing is, we can't normally reproduce the delay. In the pits, we got the same results as you--the motor speed starts ramping immediately--but there is a noticable delay at the start of a match.

If anyone has videos of the Wisconsin regional, you can see that our robot takes off about a second later than all the others during the second day. (During the first, it was more like 2-3 seconds)

Thanks for looking over it though.
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