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Originally Posted by Thad House
We were 100 lbs and VersaWheel DT's at IRI, yet we still popped. If you are geared high enough to not be traction limited, Stall is Stall, so weight and CoF don't make much of a difference, other then change where traction limited is. We popped because we pushed, not during accelerating.
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I think the idea is it's harder to stall with lower CoF on the wheels. However if you do stall anyways, you have the same problem.
4476 ran a 6 CIM at a 13-14 ft/s theoretical. We never popped a breaker, and I suspect it was a combo of lower friction wheels, and we put a couple of breakers on the PD board for the drive CIMS at 30A instead of 40A. The idea being that the PD breaker would trip before the main breaker would.
I'm not really sure which made a difference as both were implemented prior to testing to make sure we never blew the main breaker, but it makes sense to me that both would have had a significant factor in preventing main breaker trips.