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Re: Belt Driven Drive Trains

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Originally Posted by Aren Siekmeier View Post
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.
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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