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Originally Posted by Richard McClellan
If one part failed, the entire module had to be disassembled, part replaced, and reassembled. In our second to last qualification match the drive motor on our rear module (an RS-545) burned up. As soon as the match ended, our whole team worked as fast as possible to get it replaced. We had about an hour and 10 minutes between matches, and by the time we got the last nut tightened down, our last match had just started and we missed it. If we decide to do crab drive again next year, one of our goals will be to increase serviceability.
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Midwest 2007, almost this exact situation happened to us, except ours was a couple loose screws. We had the time and would've finished but they decided to run our next match 15min ahead of schedule and as a result we missed our first ever qualification match.
The next swerve only broke once, and took 5 minutes tops to fix that one thing.