Shifting Transmission

[Arefin Bari]

There are pros and cons to both designs. i have seen both dog and mesh shifter work on a first robot. Efficiently team 45 (technokats) has done dog shifting and 180 (SPAM) has done mesh shifting. personally i am supportive to both shifters. but mesh shifter is probably easy to build (i am not an engineer YET). but i am sure that Andy Baker from 45 and Gary Dillard from team 180 can tell you about both shifters...

[Stephen Kowski]

http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2004...vetrainmdj.ppt

this is from the conference at the Championship last year. Hopefully this should give you a lot ideas and many pros and cons of different drive trains/ transmissions.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pa...er&paperid=386

This is a link to a whitepaper done by team 33...very interesting 4 speed gear meshing transmission....

good luck