pic: FRC488's Octocanum Ver 2.0

[pfreivald]

I wanted to resurrect this thread to say the following to Madison:

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

We based our octocanum on your design for this year, and it's the most successful, awesome drivetrain we've ever built. We absolutely, completely love it -- and based on the feedback from a lot of other teams, many other people do, too. It is, hands down, one of the reasons we were as successful as we were this year.

Thanks again!

[lcoreyl]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

I wanted to resurrect this thread to say the following to Madison:

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

We based our octocanum on your design for this year, and it's the most successful, awesome drivetrain we've ever built. We absolutely, completely love it -- and based on the feedback from a lot of other teams, many other people do, too. It is, hands down, one of the reasons we were as successful as we were this year.

Thanks again!

Wow, I guess this should push us over the edge and get to work on this. Man, I'm kicking myself for not prototyping so we could have used it this year.

I could probably guess due to your absolute love, but did you encounter any serious side loading during competition? (That will save Madison from needing to bother so she can go work on her next bit of magic!)

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by lcoreyl

Wow, I guess this should push us over the edge and get to work on this. Man, I'm kicking myself for not prototyping so we could have used it this year.

I could probably guess due to your absolute love, but did you encounter any serious side loading during competition? (That will save Madison from needing to bother so she can go work on her next bit of magic!)

Nope. We made sure to use steel pods so that side load would be adequately dealt with -- and it was tremendously robust over two regionals where we played massive defense, crossed the barrier 1+ times a game, and did lots of bridge balancing. The only malfunction was losing tread on an AM performance wheel, and that hardly counts. (Even with only three treaded wheels, we humped across the barrier that last game.)