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Re: Motor Placement Pros and Cons

Hi Pattie,

Let me offer my POV on this..

are you guys going to use this as a direct drive to one wheel on each side??

If so, it might be worth your while, bit the instant you try and turn, you will be doing donuts easily. my advice is mirror your robot, make each side symmetrical, it makes for much better weight distribution as well as power effeiciency.

One mroe thing, in that current setup, you will also have some frame warp, this will happen when your robot goes to pick up something and your left wheel is trying to get traction and the other is going to be slipping (kinda the same as a posi-trac rear end)

all in all a forum is merely a tool for suggestion, and we utterly cannot swing a teams vote...

good luck!
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