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Re: Ground clearance

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Originally Posted by tim-tim View Post
Yes I agree, there is no holy grail answer.

Can I pose the question: if you know are going (significantly) bias the CG to one side of the robot, why drop the center as opposed to raising the front? Not trying to argue the poi t just want a different designers perspective.
Partly because even with a CG bias, you won't ever prevent the robot from rocking onto those other wheels (a 14-15" wheelbase just isn't very stable for any fast robot).

A bigger factor for us is we don't like giving up symmetry on our parts. If we can maintain it, it makes fab and assembly easier/less confusing.

It's a really trivial difference though, between implementations.
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