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Originally Posted by Owen Busler
Here you can see our 2015 robot with a pneumatically actuated h wheel. The original reason for it to be actuated was so we could drive over the scoring platforms. But, once we began testing we found out the 6" vex pro omni would just slip. We replaced the omni with a traction wheel and it works beautifully.
https://youtu.be/6lu_WeM54G0?t=41s |
The wheel in the video is an omni, and it looks OK there. Did you mean perhaps that the omni slipped when attempting to strafe on the scoring platform?
Do you recall how much weight you put on the strafe wheel (pressure times area times ratio of lever arms)?