pic: Input Stage Wear

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by R.C.

We'll be adding a fix to this next year, we didn't notice this problem in our 3 years of testing (2011-2013 robots) but had a few teams email us about this issue.

I'm going to assume that you never tested it in an environment like Stronghold, with a lot of repeated impacts and sudden changes in the z-axis.

We had a couple WCP SS gearboxes from an old project that we were able to beat the crap of right at kickoff. Everything in the gearbox had a habit of not being where we initially put it after running it over the rockwall a few times. Bent a couple plates and killed a couple gears before we figured out how to brace them properly to handle the rigors of this game. Once we got it right, 80 matches later and the only thing we ever did on the drive was monitor chain tensioning!