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Way to Go! No CVT for us :(
Posted by Andy Baker.
Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 2/8/2000 7:21 AM MST
In Reply to: Ditto posted by Dodd Stacy on 2/7/2000 4:16 PM MST:
That will be the trick this year: the ability to change to a lower gear on the fly. Kudos to you and your team, Dodd!
We were trying to go with a CVT (continuously variable transmission)... but without success. We bailed on the CVT due to some many losses in the system. It works, but there is too much friction and some binding between the toroidal plates.
What this CVT would've done is have constant acceleration... we figured that it could've run into the far wall (48 feet away) at 20 mph.
We'll have the contraption in our pits at the competition... please come by and take a look, 'cause you'll probably see it on our 'bot in 2001 (depending on field size).
Andy B.
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