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Re: Getting A Bot To Turn

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Originally Posted by ahecht
A) Don't use 6 wheels (the friction equation says that on a flat surface, four wheels will have the same amount of traction as six)
We have used the same wheels in a 4 wheel configuration, and have had even less success. Alot of the problem is that our robots are the long way(long wheelbase).

Perhaps something like this would help out a 4 wheel config. Hurricane
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