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Re: Drive train questions

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Originally Posted by JamesCH95 View Post
8-12ft/s is about right. Think 5-6ft/s for pusher robots.
Actully, I disagree. I think that your robot should be geared to go as fast as the drivers can control it. If you look at teams such as 67, 1114, and 254 (just off the top of my head) they all have extreamly fast drivetrains that they can all control very well. This is generally because their drivers are very experienced from a combination of past seasons and practice robot driving.
Because games in FIRST are unfailingly "who can do more/faster" senerios if you want to win you have to go fast. So if you are really good but not that fast you can never hope to be as good as the robots that are both.

As for low gear make it low enough to push stuff but not low enough that other robots can run away, that aside its all preferance.

my 2 cents
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