25-01-2011, 00:38
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AKA: Pinecone
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,737
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Re: Best amount of sprocket teeth
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Originally Posted by JesseK
Finally, don't let anyone tell you that 2 CIMs on a drive train is a bad idea -- if it's geared properly, it works just fine (and you can still be very successful).
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I'm going to go ahead and do that - "geared properly" for a 2 CIM drive with Kit wheels is under 8 feet per second - not very fast.
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Some said the aluminum foil gave the robot a NASA-like quality, but others pointed out that blanketing components with a highly-conductive material that blocked air flow was probably not going to help get us to Einstein. - beerobber [more] 
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