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14-12-2015, 22:13

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Re: FRC shifting gears

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Originally Posted by EricH

Other way around, actually. FRC-legal servos are WEAK. I'd tell you young'uns when my team tried that, but I'd feel really old... and we went with pneumatics because of the servo response (and AM had a handy conversion kit for their Gen2 Shifter).

What kind of force is needed? I saw a supershifter demo with a servo that put out around 9 lbs but it was no where near as snappy as the pistons.

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