2-Speed Programming

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by cobrawanabe1699

We've decided not to, but my team had tossed around the idea of 2-speed trannies on our bot. But, (apropo of nothing I guess...) what kind of programming would this take? Keep in mind, all you need to get the trannies to shift at the same time is a lock between individual shifters (like the throttles on a twin-engine boat), so that is no problem. But for the rest of it, if my team decided to do this next year, how hard would it be on the programmers?

last year we just had one pneumatic solenoid that was split with a T joint and was connected to 2 pneumatic pistons that shifted. so they would always shift at the same time. The joystick on our trigger would control the shift

by the way, last year's was a ball shift, which did not need some sort of timing mechanism