pic: 1296 Mittens

[Harrison.Smith]

Originally Posted by MaGiC_PiKaChU

We had problems at Toronto, probably like 1296, because our gear ratio was too fast. The power peaks we had made us brownout. we replaced a 5:1 for a 9:1 in the planetaries at Montreal, and we had twice the torque, and the speed is still decent, about 9ft-sec, now with no brownout problems.

Like you said, with all the power, if we get in a pushing match, the wheels slip instead of stalling the motors. They get warm, maybe hot in elims, but they will not burn

We were running around 16ft-second with our 775pro drive. Our problem in Palmetto was stalling the 775pros and not having any software current limiting (which was heavily tested and implemented for Dallas). That happened 3 straight matches (new motors every match) and led to our early exit from the elims. Although we thought the issue had been solved for Dallas and we cooked the motors again in the elims. Since we have plenty of weight we decided to go to a 1 CIM and 1 miniCIM per side drive that will be implemented at champs.