Thread: 971's chassis
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Unread 24-05-2014, 01:03
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Re: 971's chassis

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Originally Posted by Thad House View Post
Why do you guys run 3/16 drop?
To be honest, most of it is because we've always done it that way and it hasn't caused us any problems. We ran less drop a number of years ago (2008 ish), and found that because both the front and back wheels could catch the carpet at the same time, the robot didn't handle as consistently. It works well enough, so we haven't messed with it. Nothing is worse than a poor handling robot or a robot that can't turn well.