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Re: Team 1781 2014 Chassis

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Originally Posted by Answer42 View Post
Any reason you're choosing not to power the outside omni wheels? Unless you have the 4 middle wheels on a drop center you're reducing the percentage of the robots weight on the driven wheels by 1/2. This would effectively reduce your pushing power by half, given that your low gear would likely be traction limited with 100% of driving weight on wheels anyways. That wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, but given that you opted to have shifters on the robot, I would assume pushing force was a desired quality for your robot. I also ask because it seems like you have room to easily add another 9mm belt on those double wide pulleys to drive the outside omni wheels.
The four center wheels are dropped. We only wanted weight on the four center wheels and the Omnis are just there for stability.
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