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Re: A Simple Improvement to Driving

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Originally Posted by Matt Attallah
Team 5 use to used tank drive for the 1998, 99, 00, and 01 years. Rember - when you take the motors and flip them opposite of eachother (So when moving foward - one motor thinks it's running in reverse) these motors seem to have a (?)Reverse bias? It's in the way the brushes think.

That's because they're drill motors. The drill motor gear box turns one way faster than the other. One way you can fix that is by not having one drive train mirror the other, but actually build it, so that it looks exactly like the other side. Example- Our drivetrain is in an L shape, what we have to do is make it into an upside down 'L' Shape, so that the motor is in a different position, not right next to the other one. It should sorta look lik a demented 'H' right next to each other. That should fix your problem, that is if you're using drill motors. If you're using another kind of motor, then I don't know.

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