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Originally Posted by GeeTwo

Do you have some intel on next year's game? It certainly would have been overkill for Recycle Rush, but next year's game may call for fast climbing or other need for high traction while at speed, for which 3 CIMS would do better than two, even after taking brownouts into account.

Are you sure? From the data someone (234?) posted before last season, it seems like the voltage drop from simply accelerating from a standstill with six CIMs on a fully charged battery would result in a brownout condition. Of course this can be mitigated by setting a max dV/dt or doing more elaborate forms of current control, but you quickly run into a scenario where producing an effective six CIM system is substantially harder than buying a different COTS gearbox.