One speed vs Two speed gearboxes

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by Jared

I've seen you say this a few times. How would you set up an auto-shift system? When do you shift up and shift down?

Maybe you could use encoders to determine the speed the wheels are running, and go from there setting a threshold above which to use 2nd gear and then below that value it goes back down to first gear. We used auto-shifting this year, and it worked pretty well. We also had a manual override in case we were in a pushing match or other scenario where auto-shifting may not be entirely reliable. However, all in all, it definitely worked well for us. One less thing for the driver to worry about, although we are looking into single-speed gearboxes over the offseason.

We also had a timer that did a 1 second lockout to prevent rapid repetitive shifting between 1st and 2nd gear when reading the values.