Drive Systems... ...The FIRST Arms Race?

[monty1540]

one thing that has not been brought up, which i'm probably going to get hounded for on two counts, more on that in a few. one way to limit extremely powerful drive trains would be to go to a smaller battery, one that would need to be conserved to make it through a match, so you could go for a powerful drive train for a short period of time, or a less powerful one for a longer amount of time, perhaps extending the matches so that this became a factor more. I think the innovation that would result could be very interesting to watch. Now, the two counts on which i'll be hounded, 1. FIRST just changed the battery, so for those teams that have purchased multiple for extras, this wouldn't be too nice, and the second point, many people, including me, don't like to change the battery every two minutes during testing... we have some '05 batteries that have been through competition twice, and two off seasons, and last for about two minutes before being useless, with lower powered batteries, this would become a reality even when the batteries were new, anyway, thats just my $.02