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Re: Turning Trouble!

Make sure your battery connections and high current connections are all really good.

Make sure you don't have misalignment or binding in the drivetrain when the wheels are side-loaded (which is exactly what happens when you are turning). If you can pull the motor only out of the drive system, and feel the friction as you just rotate the wheel, and then feel the friction as you sideload (dont be gentle) and rotate the wheel, you might identify a misalignment or binding problem.

If you still have the problem, consider moving weight around on the robot to take weight off the wheels you want to slip the most (take care to not do anything that makes you super-tippy of course). Or, as suggested earlier in the thread, make the wheel slip more by reducing its traction.

Ken
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