View Single Post
  #10   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 26-03-2004, 15:06
Pat Roche Pat Roche is offline
Mechanical Engineer
FRC #0134 (Team Discovery)
 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Rookie Year: 2000
Location: Pembroke, NH
Posts: 211
Pat Roche is a splendid one to beholdPat Roche is a splendid one to beholdPat Roche is a splendid one to beholdPat Roche is a splendid one to beholdPat Roche is a splendid one to beholdPat Roche is a splendid one to beholdPat Roche is a splendid one to behold
Send a message via AIM to Pat Roche
Re: 2 truck drive train

Quote:
Originally Posted by maxlobovsky
Interesting, but if you are going to have castor supports, why not just have two independtly steerable and powered wheels in the middle and save yourself the trouble of the differential. BTW, if you dont balance your weight carefully, castors can be a real problem because they reduce weight on drive wheels and therefore traction.
To solve teh weight distibution problem all you would have to do is offset the castors at a slightly different level as the castors.

Really neat idea. Seems that it would be easier to produce that a crab drive is too.

-Pat
__________________
Team Discovery #134 Alumni 1999-2004
Division by Zero #229 Alumni 2004-2009
Team Discovery again?
2010 and Beyond


Where have the last 11 years have gone?