[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by JesseK

The AM toughbox nano's standard gear ratio, direct-driven to 6" wheels, is plenty fast for this year's game. Speaking of, our Nano's (hex) held up to the unscrupulous beating they took while going over the bumps and taking a hard hit on the other side ... cantilevered !. This is the 2nd year we've supported 150lbs through cantilevered AM toughboxes and we can now testify that AM doesn't call them "toughbox" for nothing. We did have to add the washers to the inside of the Nano's so the output shaft bearing wouldn't slip. We also burned each motor/transmission combo in for 30 minutes with plenty of lithium grease.

For the show, that's roughly 8 feet per second on a non-mecanum drive. I know my team was planning on a 12FPS configuration using 6 motors, but a few tests showed that 8FPS was plenty fast for a driver that hadn't tackled carpet before. With the bumps less than 24 feet apart, being able to get across 2 zones in 4 seconds would be nice but I think that's definitely not integral this year