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Re: Reducing Colson Wheel Diameter

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Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss View Post
If your wheels are spinning at the same RPM, wouldn't this cause issues with the actual contact speeds of the wheels being different? It seems to me that the larger center wheels would lose traction often and cause your drivetrain to "skip" or at least decrease the smoothness of the drive.
We worried about that in 2007, with an extra layer of tread affixed on the center wheels of our six-wheel-drive (it didn't have a drop on the axle). If anything, it made the robot drive more smoothly. We never decided exactly why that was.
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