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Re: pic: 'I' drivetrain concept

Howzit!

Here is a link to our spin on the classic H/I drive from last year.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/41580

We call it the Flying Hawaiian Drive. Some referred to it as the Klingon Bird of Prey.

Sorry the pneumatic cylinder is not in this picture. It goes between the two tabs between the wheel legs.

Your design, which was built and videoed by a few teams so far, and are posted on YouTube, is solid, but has only one driving wheel for strafing at any time.

We did CAD and started to build prototypes of this type of strafe system last year.

Unfortunately this type of actuation puts the strafe wheel system too low and would not give enough ground clearance when traveling over the scoring platform last year.

This is what spawned our design, we wanted strafing but didn't want to give up being able to drive over the scoring platform and wanted as much traction as possible with all that tote weight.

If you like I can send you the CAD files and / or post current pictures of the working assembly.

Looks good and a great CAD project to be refining those skills.

Keep it up!

Aloha
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