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Re: H-Drive Strafing issues

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Originally Posted by messer5740 View Post
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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Originally Posted by pmattin5459 View Post
He said that with a hard mount, no. You need some sort of actuation. I would suggest the RoboWrangler way from the comment above if you don't want to use pneumatics.
Correct. It didn't matter whether we ran on bare floor or carpeting; we never got a useful strafe with fixed mounting, even when we tried a slot and use cable tension to hold the gearbox/wheel down.
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