Just curious as to what speeds teams plan on running this year. We’ll be somewhere between 7.5 and 10 fps - depending on what drive sprocket we use. As of right now we’ve got it at 9 fps but havent really had a chance to test drive the robot yet.
we have the 2 speed andymark supershifter, so figure from there
Right now we are getting up to 15 fps in the distance of the arena, but in an open stretch, we can get up to around 23 fps. We are just using a 6 to 1 gear ratio straight off the 2.5" CIM Motors.
Our theoretical top speed is about 11fps but our actual speed is about 10 fps
Lol in our last week of drive practice I think I may have had it up to 10 fps like one or twice. At that speed the ball seems to fall right out during any turns and we run out of carpet way to fast.
10fps-12fps. Don’t wanna go overkill.
Ours is right at 10fps and very easy to control.
We had ours set at 13.5’/s and it was still accelerating after traveling 3/4 length of the field. So we slowed it down to 10.5’/s. Anything more is overkill.
We are figuring ours goes about 9 fps, in high gear.
Originally 18 fps, but I decided that was a little ridiculous and geared it down to around 15. (freeload. it’ll probably drive around 12-13.)
12.5 I believe was our number. It’s surprisingly very fast and easy to control. A good medium I think.
we have 12 as are high i believe it accelerates very nicely and is not to hard to control (from the little testing we did)
way to make a wrong statement popo, its currently geared to 13fps free speed probably putting us around 11.5-12 actual. but from the bit i drove it it seems pretty controllable.
We’re at 16FPS.
Yes it is controllable, very, and surprisingly.
Yes it does reach the speed in a pretty decent time, so it isn’t such a waste.
But we did it because it was fun : )
Our actual top speed is near 20, but we’ll never really reach that, unless we’re on an empty straightaway. It’s extremely light. Gotta love 6061 Aluminum.
A sincere questions for the speedsters.
Do you think that it will be possible for you to go full speed when there are 5 other robots on the field along with 4 balls? How often do you think you will be able to go that speed?
As a I side note, how fast can you make the turns?
I guess it comes down to one underlying question that we all will find out at the first competition. How fast can we all go and still maneuver in a safe fashion without ramming other robots? As we all know, light taps are okay 
edited by Sunshine: fat fingers had me punch a 6 instead of a 4 on original post … sorry
That will be quite crowded…but those extra two balls probably won’t actually be on the field 
We’ll probably reach it few times. Heck, we did it because of our resources. Fun, no? ; ) Our budget was kept short and low, and for reasons we have and will not share.
We would concentrate on a good balance between acceleration and top speed. Again, we’ll find out.
We’ve made our robot extremely small, light, and fast. So we’ll see. And to our turns, let’s just say we’re very satisfied . Let’s just say we’re a tertiary, if you know what I mean.
I just hope we can have a break away just for the heck of it.
…And you mean 4 balls, not 6.
That’s what low gear is for ;).
Pretty fast. If we hit the turn at full speed, we can drift around it and carry most of our speed through it. Unfortunately, it is kind of hard to reliably do the drift… slow down too soon and you hit the divider, too late and you overshoot. Just right, however, and it is a really fast way to advance around the field.
Our max is about 36fps or 25mph
Ours is about 16 fps
We’ve got three speeds for the first time this year. 5, 15, and 20 fps 