Thread: 971's chassis
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Re: 971's chassis

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Originally Posted by AustinSchuh View Post
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.
Ah OK. I was just wondering if you had tried changing with the smaller chassis. We plan on doing alot more testing with this over the summer, because if we can get rid of the rocking and still turn just as well we might just have to do that.

And I remember back in the old days where if you didn't have the drop or too little that think would hop like there was no tomorrow. Both the 2011 and 2012 robots I helped build didn't have enough and they didn't turn well at all.
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