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Re: Driving on Regolith

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Originally Posted by Billfred View Post
2815 used two 550-sized motors (Mabuchi? F-P? Been so long...) through AM Planetary gearboxes, through the standard 2009 kitbot (AM Toughbox, AM C-Base, the 2009 wheels) with a wide base. We saw little reason to do more.

(And it let us use four CIMs on the ball collector/power-dumper. When else can you get away with that?)
You used FP motors; the lower overall power and (relatively) high speed gearing helped reduce slipping (I was intimately familiar with your bot that year).

That was a fun year to design end-effects; no lack of available power (which sometimes presented its own problems).
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