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FTC 3507 Robo Theosis -- FRC 3135
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Re: TETRIX All Terrain vs. Stealth Wheels vs. ???

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Originally Posted by cadandcookies View Post
I've seen a couple of teams take this route at MN's first two qualifiers. They seemed to a have a somewhat easier time climbing than many teams with just a drive train.

We decided to do a very unique and rather weird drive train concept with no real certainty that it would work. First time in six years we have ever gone custom wheels for either FTC (or FRC ). Turns out the gamble paid off big time. The paired wheel sets give both good rolling on the flats and sufficient hooking onto the churro bars to ensure climbing progress as long as front and rear wheel sets each stay reasonably well in sync laterally.
We added independent controls for all four wheel pairs to help with this.

VIDEO → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep4pOBO7BJE&authuser=0



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