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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod
The wheels sound like hard plastic and those are okay for turning.
Turning for those kinds of wheels can be improved by several choices:
- Dropping the center wheel a little more
- Adding another motor to each side
- Changing out the gears in the gearbox for a better ratio (AndyMark has another set of recommended replacement gears - see page 4 for the 12.75:1 ratio here http://files.andymark.com/PDFs/AM14U3_UserGuide_1.1.pdf) |
As we have a competition this weekend, it seems like either adding another CIM to both sides, or dropping the center wheel a little bit would be our best options. Is there anything in the program that I could possibly do to alleviate having to disassemble our drivetrain tomorrow? We're just doing an Arcade Drive, so I thought that possibly making our own custom drive code would work (instead of relying on WPILib to cause the wheels to drag). Is this a problem that could be fixed by having the motors spin in opposite directions to be able to spin, or is it absolutely necessary to modify the drivetrain?