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Re: pic: Team 2220 Blue Twilight Octocanum Offseason Project

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Originally Posted by Trent B View Post
Fortunately the size of the pistons you need to shift is pretty small, I think ours had a stroke of 1" tops, and a bore of 1 1/16" or so, we also plumbed them all off of 1 or 2 solenoids, I can't remember what we decided on at the end of the season. You don't have to use air to pull the traction wheels back up, robot weight should be more than enough. Also, the bot was downright hard to move if it stopped in traction mode.
Could you explain this further?

If you don't use air to retract the traction wheels, won't the end result be having both the mecanum wheels and traction wheels touching the ground simultaneously?
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