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Re: Stearing

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Originally Posted by maxgebhardt
I've never been a real fan of 1 motor per shaft, simply because I always hate getting all four to operate at the same speed. also with two motors the probablity of breakdown is (prob. motor 1 break)*(prob. motor 2 break) which is roughly the same so its (break prob.)^2 while 4 motors is (break prob)^4, much higher...

We did one motor/wheel last year and the reason is simple: we wanted power but we couldn't make dualie gearboxes.

We put the stuff on the wheels today. I will take a pic and I guess testing is in order for tommorow.

We also did zip-ties as a temporary fix and the helped, but we had to be careful to start our turns slowly.

It was fun driving around. We zip-tied the trannies so we didn't slip into neutral and put any more holes in walls today. heh.
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