Okay. . .I'll check up on this in a little bit.
Last night, we were running the robot's drive train while it was up on blocks. . . after running it for a bit, we managed to wreck a drill transmission. . .
Now, lots of things went wrong, I think, but I don't think any thing was significant enough to cause the transmission to die. . . But, what do I know?
So, here's the run down -
1. Stupid us forget to reverse the output of one of the motors because the gearing sort of, well, inverts their output direction. As a result, we had the drill motors and Chiaphua's fighting one another for a time.
2. The drive chains and the rest of the drive system has a lot of tension in it - too much, perhaps.
3. Finally, the free speed of the two motors is still slightly different, even after the reduction. The drill motor is in high, and thus at 1000 RPM. The Chiaphua was geared at 5.33:1, and is spinning at ~1100 RPM.
Any ideas? I didn't get in until 5 am, so I'm just getting set to head back and wrap my head around this.
If there's an obvious solution I can't see after being awake for 23 hours, please share
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