pic: Four Speed Three CIM Gearbox

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Originally Posted by magnets

I always love these hypothetical crazy gearboxes and ratios people come up with. Practical, maybe not, but definitely awesome.

Assuming your robot was geared for 18 feet per second in high gear, and 0.67 feet in low gear (a 27:1 spread), you'd need to have a 1800 lb robot (or group of robots) to take advantage of the gear ratio and never trip the breaker in a pushing match. If the robot weighed any less, you could get away with a smaller spread and never worry about tripping a breaker.

That sounds like my kind of game!!

2002 meant your robot could be several hundred pounds due to how heavy the movable goals were. 71 could drag over 900 pounds that year!