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Re: Shifting or Non-Shifting

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
Last year we had single speed gearboxes geared for about 10.5 ft/s in our swerve drive and a selectable-output shifting gearbox for our dual kickers. Our real-world results confirmed our calculations that showed a single-speed gearbox geared for 10.5 ft/sec was a very good compromise between speed and traction with our customized Colson wheels.



In the future, we'll likely use 2-speed shifting gearboxes on our drive train if we go with a normal 6WD.
Hey Art,
Did WPI manufacture that setup? Thats pretty impressive!

Also, AM Supershifters, shifted pneumatically. We attempted to do the servo shifting setup in 2009 (because there was nothing else that we needed pneumatics for) and we had a lot of problems!

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