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Drive Wheels
Our team used a 6wd pneumatic drive train this year. We had a horrible time turning but when sideways we were practically unmovable.
I was wondering what other teams have had the best luck with in terms of traction and mobility. Thanks for any and all help/info |
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Many teams have great luck with similar conditions which you described. With your 6WD, did you happen to lower the center pair of wheels at all?
With your question, many teams have been having great success with the new vexpro versa wheels. Teams also have great success with colson wheels. |
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3397 was more maneuverable than pushy, but we could push in a pinch. |
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We lowered our middle wheels like you're supposed to in a 6wd WCD drivetrain but for some reason it didn't help out much
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If you insist on pneumatic tires, you must have (very) dropped center wheels to turn well at the wheel's specified pressure.
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With Pneumatic wheels you might have to lower the center wheel more because the weight of the robot will cause your center wheel to squish (and lower the rest of the robot), thus eliminating some of the drop you added. If you also were to deflate your outside wheels slightly, you should also notice a increase in mobility. Edit: looks like the people above me came to the same conclusion |
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very likely will be at cowtown also :) |
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After using both AM plaction and vexpro traction wheels now, I'm confident in saying that I love the vexpro traction wheels. I don't know what performance boost we would get from using the versa wheels over the Traction wheels with extra grip SBR black roughtop from McMaster, so I think we'll be sticking with these champs.
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