Determining Motor Speed?

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What's "paper theory" ?

Calculating theoretical system performance without testing as validation.

Is the battery delivering the full 12 volts? We hope so, we haven't bothered to measure it under load.

Are the Victors really delivering the full battery voltage? They're off our 2007 robot, who knows? There's a definite audible difference between running the motors hooked up directly to a battery and running them through the FIRST control system (there's probably some reason that there's a fan on the Victors).

Are the 775's performing to spec? They're the same ones we used on our forklift last year, so they already have one full season plus a year of demo's on them. They aren't even getting warm after 3 or 4 hours of practice, so we plan to keep running them.

Lots of system variables in there that aren't accounted for if you're using a nominal P=IR^2.

It's currently scoring well over 90% from the key. Due to the ball variables, the best we could hope for with a lot of additional effort is a couple of percent improvement if we're lucky. Plenty of other things higher on the priority list before we worry about that!