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Originally Posted by steelerborn
The outer diameter on your tread and the gear teeth on your gear look very close. Not sure what the distance is pictures can be deceiving, but running on gear teeth would be a bad thing.
Also are you using a worm gear for turning the module, I think I can see a little bit of one through the reflection. Could you post a side view so we can see the turning motor? I like the tubular module.  |
Yes - the gear is risky. I used a gear that was the same size as the rib of the wheel on the other side. For this study I was trying to see how far I could push everything. It's fun (an engineer's fun) to take these risks when it doesn't really matter. In the middle of a build season you can't get away with stuff like this when you don't know for sure that it will work.
I used an RS-395 motor with a 40:1 worm and a 4:1 gear set. I don't have any experience with swerve turning so this was a bit of a guess. You have sharp eyes to pick this up from what you could see in the picture.