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Re: Belt Driven Drive Trains
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Originally Posted by Aren Siekmeier
They are in in-lb.
You aren't going to see 480 in-lb per drive side, the wheels will slip first. 150 lb / 2 * CoF * wheel radius is at most 450 in-lb with 6" wheels and a phenomenal CoF of 2.0. A more reasonable max is 200 in-lb (4" wheel, CoF of 1.3). You'd have to lock the wheel to get more than that.
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Even still, that is 4x greater then what the numbers Austin posted say belts can take. If a 15mm 24T pulley can only take 70 in-lb, teams would be snapping them all the time even with 2 CIM drives.
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