Newbie question here. 
The team tried to speed up the robot from the original direct motor to wheel set-up to gearing with a 3:4 ratio only on the front wheels.
Speed increased and is great, however turning velocity now seems too high and makes aiming the arm/intake very difficult. From what I understand the remote overwrites any turn velocity reduction coded.
Are there any options to keep the speed but increase turn accuracy? Otherwise the team might have to switch back to the direct motor set-up. Any other options for the gearing to slow it down a little more but still have an advantage in speed compared to direct motor?
Figured I would ask first, before giving up on the set-up.
The gear ratio on the drive train was reversed. It should say Input 4 and Output 3, however that didn’t seem to make a difference when it comes to turn handling.
You can individually change the turning and the driving velocity in vex code.
Usually the asnwet to this is just practice more. Lota of teams gear there motors up 2:1 or 3;1 for their drives and have no issues at all… practice makes pwrfect.
The other option is to havr a button that wh3n clicked a ets the max drive speed to like 75 and then whan you want to go full speed setthe drive back to 100%
I may be wrong, but set velocity does impact the drive controller using the default drivetrain program.
Other post in the past you could skip the drivetrain setup but you would need to program in code when joystick down drive reverse, etc commands.
Drivetrain set velocity (may be wrong) only impacts autonomous program drives (and turn velocity also).
Like the last poster said - lots of practice. There is one joystick move that may help - if you didn’t know (probably did).
Pushing the joystick slightly in a direction will slowly go that direction (nudge or tilt your thumb slightly); pushing to joystick full goes fast.
If you need a precise turn, tilt your thumb slightly in that direction and the robot will turn or move that direction slowly. You can have speed when you need, and precision by nudging the joystick when you need - best of both worlds!
Idk just set the velocity to something lower to make whatever you want slower and it only impacts that motor/motor group
Thank you for the suggestions. It seems that driving practice helped a lot. I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t something obvious the team didn’t yet know about. Appreciate the help we receive from this forum!
