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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
I don't believe 254 ran tensioners in 2016 or 2015.
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Correct. I actually had a much longer post drafted up and then deleted most of it to keep it shorter and more straightforward. Tension your chains and you shouldn't have a problem.
I would consider a well-designed exact C-C setup to be "properly tensioned", such as 254 ran in 2015 and 2016 and 118 for the past few years as well.
Some quick math also shows that a few degrees of "slop" of the wheels relative to eachother will only result in a positional error of fractions of an inch (1 degree of slop on a 4" diameter wheel is less than 0.040" linear). While you may get some "noise" in your encoder values, you should be able to tune a PID loop to be stable with that amount of error and still give extremely precise auton navigation.