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Re: Tread and brownouts

We are only driving one pulley per side; the others are "belted" to each other via the tread (no additional belts or chain). We are tensioning through a typical WCD setup, with a nautilus cam tensioner. Fully tensioned, the treads have about 1/2" of deflection along a 12" gap with about 50 lbs force applied at the midpoint. I haven't calculated the pounds force.
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