Old Vex stuff

[Illyana]

Taiwan drive OP-OP

Programming the planetary (Taiwan) drive

Now that planetary drives are suddenly becoming popular I thought it worth getting feedback on the best way to control them from a programming perspective. For this discussion the choice of tank or arcade style control is not important so lets just consider tank style. Normally this is done as follows (pseudocode) LeftMotorSpeed = LeftJoyStickValue; RightMotorSpeed = RightJoyStickValue; With the Taiwan drive we now have the choice of running in torque mode with an effective gear ratio of 1:1…

Too bad the concept is not efficient because high friction losses as @Doctortictac said.

Edit: all the image links in the original topics are broken and the long video from 4194B is no longer there… This is the best I could find:

- YouTube

@Ryan_4253B, maybe you could ask them to reupload their original long video with the detailed explanations - it was epic!