Thread: 6 wheel swerves
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Re: 6 wheel swerves

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Originally Posted by Brandon Holley View Post
While I'm not certain of the exact testing setup 234 has created and tested, we setup our own system.

I can verify that 4X2 won out in our setup as well.

-Brando
Brandon/234/Aren,

Did you use a flat plate of tread of varying sizes or use actual wheels and some kind of load cell? Did you do both? It probably doesn't matter for the final result, I'm just curious how much of that increase is due to straight up surface area or if you get "bonus traction" due to the changing radius and interactions of the wheel/carpet interface under different loads.
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