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Da Kid 13-01-2011 18:28

What wheels for 6WD
 
our team has decided to use a dropped center 6WD for our drive. i am wondering what are the best type of wheels to use for it?

EagleEngineer 13-01-2011 18:30

Re: What wheels for 6WD
 
Rough top or Wedge top 4in plaction wheels. That what our team is working on now.:)

Dad1279 13-01-2011 19:04

Re: What wheels for 6WD
 
If there was a best, every team would be using them. There are compromises to all of the wheels. And size (diameter) depends on your transmissions and strategy. Are you using the Kit transmissions? Does your strategy favor speed or power? You probably want to use CIMS on the transmissions, can you use 1 or 2 per transmission?

ttakashima 13-01-2011 19:12

Re: What wheels for 6WD
 
Our team is using 4 Plaction + 2 Omni 4 inch wheels. This made our drive simpler by allowing us to do a 6WD without dropping the center wheel. We chose 4 inch wheels because it lengthens our wheel base by 2 inches from the 6 inch wheel and 4 inches from the 8 inch wheels. With the transmission we chose, the 4 inch wheels gave us a reasonable high speed ~15.5fps (no load).

Da Kid 13-01-2011 20:41

Re: What wheels for 6WD
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Dad1279 (Post 999392)
If there was a best, every team would be using them. There are compromises to all of the wheels. And size (diameter) depends on your transmissions and strategy. Are you using the Kit transmissions? Does your strategy favor speed or power? You probably want to use CIMS on the transmissions, can you use 1 or 2 per transmission?

we will probably be using the toughboxes or maybe the CIMple box but we didn't get that yet since they were short the chassis box at kickoff. we would probably want speed. and we will use one CIM motor for each side since there is the limit of four and we would like to use some on our arm.


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