General Part Discussion

[gyenesvi]

31 minutes ago, Ngoc Nguyen said:

In the set up with one motor and no linear clutch, there is not enough torque so the gears would skip instead.

Again, this is not necessarily true. If the motor does not have enough torque, it could just stall, without skipping the gears. Depends on whether it's easier to skip the gears or stall the motor.

I think the weakest link is the linear clutch you introduced, and the LAs have a stronger clutch (they have to lift heavy weights, so a weak clutch would make them useless).

1 minute ago, Ngoc Nguyen said:

I'll try the hard coupled motors with no linear clutch to see how they perform then.

They should perform better, the question is how do you know that? If the single motor was struggling with the boom, the two motors should be able to lift it with no (or less) struggle. But if the single motor was not struggling, only slow, then you won't see the difference.

[Ngoc Nguyen]

3 minutes ago, gyenesvi said:

They should perform better, the question is how do you know that?

I'll remove the linear clutch and test 1 motor vs 2 hard coupled motors.