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Re: Crab drive question

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Originally Posted by NoodleKnight
I believe "Tazlikesrobots" was making an EDU bot for prototyping/tinkering, it doesn't have to meet any weight specs and so forth. He's bound to two motors because of his controller (which reminds me, do you have more motors? Because you can do away with the coaxial junk and just make each wheel have their own motor and use a pwm cable split 4-ways).
And I don't exactaly understand by "a drivetrain that doesnt have a direct motors to wheel system" -- do you mean a shifting transmission? or some drivetrain that transfers power to the wheels via viscous fluids?
I mean like on a car. i believe its because of the toque slipage something or another. Basically its the reason you can have RPM stay the same even though your car increases in speed. im not real familiar with the mechanics of cars but ive been going into depth with a cars drive train and its really nice!
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