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Originally Posted by echin
How many teams actually use a H drive? I know that 624 and 148 do, but how many others are there? From watching match videos of these teams, it looks like they primarily use their center wheels for getting out of defense, but do not use them continuously.
Also, has anyone ever tried using a CIM as part of a spacer? If it was possible to mount something to the outside frame piece that touched the back of the CIMs, it would act as several large spacers and make it much more difficult to bend the frame in.
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Yeah, the main thing we've used the center wheel for is getting out of defense. After we made some changes to the actuation of the traction and center wheels, we saw a large increase in mobility which proved really useful when we tried out the changes for the first time at the Texas Robotics Invitational. We'll be judging our opinions on the usefulness of the wheel after the rest of our offseason events, but so far it's been pretty good. We were almost impossible to t-bone at TRI because of the ability to spin out.