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Originally Posted by Gregor
I would not feel comfortable putting half the weight of my robot into gearboxes. This is even ignoring the breaker issues of an 8 motor high traction drive. |
Agreed. It looks like a very nice gearbox, however. Especially with your drive setup, which looks like an 8WD with some nice elements (chain in tube, 6-sides), I'd reevaluate whether the best use of your resources is four independent, custom gearboxes. Regardless of whether you want to do 8-motor drive, the redundancy in weight running four gearboxes seems like an exceedingly problematic limiting factor when considering the rest of your robot.
But that's just like, my opinion man.
Really like some of the design that went into this (and the full chassis CAD)-- the motor controller mount between the gearbox is cool, and I like how your motors match the angle of your frame on the sides. There are a lot of cool elements here and I hope you guys can capitalize on what you learn with this offseason drive to make a killer drive train in the 2015 season!