My teammate is being a jack about me even posting this since other people probably asked this before me but I figured I wanted just and hear what people say to myself even if others did. Cascade lifts seem so unbalance and seem as if they grow unstable if were extended too much. My team is aiming for a DR4B based build since I seems more, how do I put it, complete? I’m fairly new to what’s meta and what’s not meta and why it is that so videos and own personal responses would be appreciated.
Yet Id aswell like to know what your own teams do. (Notebooker so I need some poll data as well lol)
- Cascade
- DR4B / RD4B
- Other
Honestly it depends on what you are planning to achieve with your claw and manipulators. If you are doing like a intake bot then dr4b is probably better over speed, but for things like a chain bar, you want cascade for more endpoint stability and more compactness
My team is doing cascade lift, for various different reasons. While I can’t say much about what you should do, I can mention the reasons we are going for it.
- It is much lighter than a DR4B or DR6B, and therefore much lighter as well
- It is much more “stable” than DR4/6B. (Just look up any VEX DR4/6B and compare it to a cascade, you’ll see what I mean.)
- It is what a lot of high skill teams are doing, probably because of the previously mentioned reasons. Ace, Snacky Cakes, etc.
While a little more complex at first, it is actually really quite simple once you take a good look at it.
Once again, I can’t dictate what your team does, but that was just my ‘2 cents’.
If intake bot then do dr4b, if it’s chain bar do cascade. There are drawbacks to both though:
Dr4b: heavy, takes a lot of room
Cascade: snaps easily (I think it’s happened at moa) and string is hard to use.