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Re: Why such large wheels?

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Originally Posted by sanddrag
We believe 3.375" is just enough to get up.

In our configurations 2.75 was enough cuz the front of the wheel hit the ramp on the slope before the frame bottomed out, however since then we've raised it for other reasons ( namely ball intake and jumping problems )

Also some teams using old robots with .5" clearance getting up, its just not very consistant from what I understand unfortunately.

We used the 8" wheels for clearance and they've worked great.
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