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Re: Stopping a Triple Balance

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Originally Posted by ThirteenOfTwo View Post
You're correct, though, that lower traction certainly would make balancing harder. Does anyone have video of a high-traction and low-traction combo trying to balance?
http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2012roc_qm46 is 578 and us making the double balance look easy. (See the 2:00 minute mark). We look like mecanum, but we've got our traction wheels deployed for the bridge-work -- 578 is KoS so they're not exactly low traction, but they're geared fast with 8" wheels.
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