Image Discuss: 121 Teaser 1

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Originally posted by Solace
that was last year. the drill motors are a lot more powerful last year

Are you sure about this? I was under the impression the drills this year are much more powerful than those from previous years. Can someone confirm this?

Originally posted by Solace
the left and right side , i believe, are run at different gear ratios in order to achieve the same speed. (true, one side is probably a little more powerful than the other, but i don't think that that affected anything much.

In theory having more torque on one side of your drive would hinder straight line acceleration since one side would be accelerating faster than the other provided there wasn't any wheel spin. In other words the robot would have a tendency to turn in one direction when accelerating. I suppose this could be corrected w/ programming but you would be putting yourself at a disadvantage since you would be giving up the power of your stronger motors to match the power of the weaker set.