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Re: H-Drive Strafing issues

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
Apparently not; you asked about the chassis, not the strafe mounting.

Getting the strafe wheel at the same height as the other four is NOT what you need. Even when we had about 1/16" of a drop on ours relative to the corners, it did not provide enough traction to move the robot well. By the time we got the drop deep enough to produce consistent strafing, we had problems driving in forward and reverse. There just is no right height for a rigid mount.
I had moderate success with a fixed mount h drive in the fall of 2014 albeit the entire chassis was made of folded 1/8" polycarbonate. The flex in the PC acted like a suspension for all the wheels.

All in all I would definitely take a look at 148's robots both their 2010 and 2014 strafe wheel assemblies.
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