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Re: Einstein Finals: Curie (469, 1114, 2041) vs. Newton (67, 177, 294)

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Originally Posted by jblay View Post
As a side note I was wondering about something that happened in the first match of the semis. 254 entered the opposing tunnel at the end of the autonomous period to try and prevent 469 from setting up, 469 pushed them out of the tunnel at either the end of autonomous or at the start of teleop. When I was checking out 254's pit I noticed that they have a ratcheting system on their gearboxes to prevent people from pushing them. This ratcheting system looked like it also disengaged to allow 254 to back up. Was the gearbox I saw not from their drive train or did something else happen during that match?
I'm pretty sure that those ratchets are for their "Power Take-Off" of their drive transmissions to hang. When they engage their hanger from the drive transmissions, those ratchets keep the robot up after the round ends.
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