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Re: pic: Hart District Robotics Swerve Drive Prototype

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Originally Posted by Isaac501 View Post
Not a whole lot keeping those chains on the big drive sprockets, and the drive chain in the upper part of the picture looks pretty loose.
I don't know what you're looking at. I see 180+ degrees of chain wrap on the visible sprockets, and it looks like nearly that much on the obscured gearbox output sprockets.

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You may want to consider a tensioning system of some sort for it.
Are we talking about the same picture? In the one I see, the long chain runs do have tensioning sprockets.
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