One speed vs Two speed gearboxes

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One speed vs Two speed gearboxes

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25-11-2014, 10:54

hrench

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Re: One speed vs Two speed gearboxes

I agree with the posters that say you can't decide this until you've seen the game.

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Originally Posted by asid61

Autoshifting is done by either current sensing or heat sensing on the main breaker.

I've considered designing a mechanical 'flyball governor' to autoshift. Have any teams ever fielded one of these? Seems easy enough to conceive of. No air, no software and it would down shift when you got slower automatically.

Last edited by hrench : 25-11-2014 at 11:39.

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