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Andy Mark Super Shifter

Would anyone be able to tell me around how long it takes the Andy Mark Super Shifter to shift. It is not on the Andy Mark site that I know of and one advisor says .15 seconds and another says 1.5.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

well i believe that it varies because i have played with our super shifters and the gear has to spin usually for the dog gear to fall in place. So it depends on how fast the gears are spinning for the dog to fall in place and sometimes you could be shifting at the right time and they are lined up and they fall right in. So my answer is it varies but i am sure you could get an average time.
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

It depends on what you are using to shift with...

If you are using a servo shifter, it's going to take you a second or two to shift because servo is slow and you are only using about 5 lbs of force to shift with.

If you are using a cylinder to shift with, it's going to shift in spits of a second because a cylinder shoots out or in fast and you are also using 35-40 lbs of force to shift with.

Good luck.
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

We don't have any experience with the servo shifting models but with the pneumatic shifting the shift is almost instant.

If you are moving and you trigger the shift you won't notice any lag at all unless you are moving very slow. On the fly at speed it's bang and go!
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

to clarify, our team is wondering how long it takes to shift using the servo
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

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to clarify, our team is wondering how long it takes to shift using the servo
Andrew, read my post that I made earlier in this thread.
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

We used Gen 2 servo shifters last year. Once we "broke in" the transmissions, they shifted very smoothly. Very. Still do. Not as fast as pneumatic, but I'd guess below a second.

We have no experience with the SuperShifter servo shifting, but I'd expect similar performance. I feel the simplicity as well as the weight and space savings of the servo shifting setup (goodbye solenoid valve, cylinders, tubing, Spike Relay) balance the drop in shifting performance relative to pneumatics.

Just keep the backup battery fresh. Buy enough to keep them charged and swap out every 1-2 matches, just to be safe. We rotated four backups last year, but you could probably get away with only two. Dying backup battery = weak servo holding force = shifters coming out of gear = bad.

You could also choose to employ an onboard backup battery charging circuit to keep the battery fresh.
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

Our brand new servo shifters (not broken in at all--less than 20mn run time) shift in a little less than a second. However, it is really important to oil the dog well and set good points for the servo to shift to. The shifting slows down a bit when the backup battery wears down.
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

we switched from pneumatic shifting to servo shifting this year. The servo shift seems to take roughly the same amount of time as the pneumatic. I was worried that the servo shift wouldn't be as reliable, but from what I've seen so far (1.5 hrs or so on the drivetrain), they seem to work just fine.

Edit: oh, by the way, we use gen2's, not supershifters, but i would venture to guess the shifting is quite similar
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

Team 40 used Andy's Servo shifters last year and a vex 7.2 battery for a backup battery. They worked great, though I would recommend servo savers as we broke about 8 servo's using them. The gears in the servo kept breaking so we just bought replacement gear sets. We used a shift on the fly as a turbo button so the robot ran in low unless "turbo" was pressed and the shift was instantaneous. We didn't cut power to shift which may also have had a negative effect on the servos.
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

Are teams using the shifter transmissions backing off on the power and then shifting or are you shifting under power?
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

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Are teams using the shifter transmissions backing off on the power and then shifting or are you shifting under power?
Shifting under power. These are designed for shift on the fly operation.

We also still have the original servos on our Gen 2's. They lasted 6+ events' worth of matches with no problems last year. We overdrove the servos a bit past each of the shift positions to help maintain the dog gear mesh (you command the servo to keep going to a position a bit past the shift point but it can never make it there because of the mechanical interference of the gears, so there's always a bit of error-correcting holding force applied in the direction of the shift), but we didn't peg the servos to their limits. You will find you'll have to experiment and dial in your servo shift positions to obtain the best, most repeatable performance.
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

I asked because your shift times seem slow. A programed (x)millisecond coast command to the motor controller should allow quicker shifting.
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

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I asked because your shift times seem slow. A programed (x)millisecond coast command to the motor controller should allow quicker shifting.
I believe that "coasting" would actually be bad. The system is designed to shift while the gears are moving, which allows the gears to match up and engage properly.

Simply your code and remove any coasting involved. Even more important, probably, is to add some code to PREVENT shifting if the motors are not being powered (you should probably set some minimum level of power required to allow a shift, which would take a little experimentation).
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Re: Andy Mark Super Shifter

All,

I'll post my opinion here about pneumatic vs. servo shifting.

If you have ANY pneumatics on your robot, then you should use the pneumatic shifting setup for 99% of the applications in FIRST Robotics. The only reason that servo shifting is better than pneumatic shifting IF pneumatics are already present is that servo shifting can provide a neutral gear. This seems to be a trivial feature, and therefore I suggest using a pneumatic shifter to anyone who asks me, unless they have no pneumatics on their robot.

Here are the advantages and disadvantages as I see them:

Pneumatic Shifting:
Advantages: 20-25 pound shifting force; very, very fast shifting (under 0.5 sec), will shift while under a pushing or accelerating load, mechanical adjustment available so that dog gear is not bottomed out
Disadvantages: requires a pneumatic system* on the robot, no neutral gear

Servo Shifting:
Advantages: no pneumatic system needed, provides a neutral gear
Disadvantages: weak shifting force (5 lbs), slower shifting (1-1.5 seconds), shift may hang up under a pushing or accelerating load, software adjustment needed to set high and low positions, requires a charged backup battery, wears out servos if the servo is constantly pushing on dog when software is not telling the servo to go to the correct position.

We did not offer a servo shifting solution until 2007, after the 2006 FRC game that required little or no use of pneumatics. We only offered it after MANY teams said that they really wanted a servo solution.

I wish that FIRST would let us use solenoids on FRC robots so that we could use a solenoid instead of a servo to shift.

* - for a pneumatic shifter, an entire pneumatic system is not required. I have run systems that use 2 accumulator tanks and an off-board compressor. These systems can shift for more than 20 times during a match if no other pneumatics are being used on the robot.

For what it's worth....

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