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Re: H-Drive Strafing issues

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
We tried strafe with H-drive in 2015, using a hard chassis mount. No matter how high or low we put it, it never worked right. Off season, we used a pneumatic cylinder to apply a steady force to it, and it worked first try. Springs can also work, I understand. The force on that wheel should be roughly between 20% and 35% of the weight of your robot, depending on how much strafe force you want and how much forward drive force you're willing to give up while you strafe.
Think it would work if we just ran it on the carpet? We are using a Vex versaframe H drive chassis
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