So I have a “friend” who thought it would be funny to pair a HS motor with a certain torque ratio for their gimbal. Because they’re sister team’s already understandably stated this as redundant and unnecessary, they just changed it to just a plain and simple torque pairing.
My “friend” wants to know if someone has truly tried this for whatever reason and how it turned out.
Why do you have a gimbal on your robot?
My “FRIEND” has a gimbal on their bot because they’re a first year and it’s all that they know how to build in the short amount of time they have before their next comp.
Although, if you’ve any other suggestions my “friend” would gladly take the time to learn how to build it afterwards.
Oops, sorry friend of Korbin’s, but I have several questions.
If you are concerned about simplicity, I assume you don’t mean 
, so what do you mean by gimbal?
Also, I have never tried that, but what kind of torque ratio are we talking about?
@Korbin I have never tried it for obvious reasons, but I if I understand what you are describing correctly (gearing down a HS motor to be the same speed as a torque motor), I assume it would be just a little slower than a torque motor due to friction
@Baguette123 Well before it was changed the ratio was 1:2, afterwards it was changed to 1:7 with the help of ideas from others.
@Korbin JHS calls it gimbal, most people on the forums call it a chainbar.
Yeah technically it’s not a gimbal, gimbal’s usually have motion that is independent in all directions of the supporting piece. A chainbar has only one direction that is independent of the supporting structure.
Yeah I know, but our team just started using it and it stuck. We know its not an accurate term, but we use it anyway.