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Re: Drive Train design roadblocks

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Originally Posted by dlavery
...Everyone is all in favor of team that use the summer and fall to develop prototype robot system, and design assemblies for their team (as training exercises, demonstration units, design practice, etc.). However, your messages seem to indicate that you are well into the final designs of your competition robot for the 2005 season, and you are seeking to tweak out the last few percentage points of efficiency and power for your designs. This is a rather risky practice at this point in time. Remember, you don't even know what the game is yet! As you "finalize plans for this year's bot" you are running a chance of spending a lot of time designing a system that could be completely inappropriate for the 2005 game....
Dave,

This is why I have and continue to advocate that FIRST mix things up more in terms of size, weight and components allowed.

Mike
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