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Originally Posted by JesseK
The real solution would be for teams to stop designing mechanisms that consistently hit the 40A + mark for extended periods -- which means more teams need to do the math.
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Our 2010 robot Storm was geared to 17 ft/sec and we could hit top speed then we tried to stuff balls into the goals or crash into walls to pick balls up. No matter what we tried we reset those Jags(Can) every match till we replaced the drive controllers with Victors and ran PWM.
The following year our 2Can enable Jags just reset when they felt like it. We switched to PWM Jags and pushed on for the 2011 season. We put a lot of resources behind finding out the problems with the Jags and how we could program to use the Jag like we wanted.
2012 we decided not to lose matches because our jags were resetting so we used Victors.
So the moral of the story is if you want to make it fast run the motor till it almost blows up
The shirts. The buttons. The capes. That feeling you get when you first glimpse the arena and all the empty pits, and the only thing is promise. When the last bit of confetti has fallen, and nobody leaves the field.
We are fortunate. - Taylor [more] 
03-10-2012, 15:27
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