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Unread 03-05-2006, 16:32
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Re: Live vs. Dead axles

This was the first year sense I have been involved with 116 that we have used dead axles, and if we had swapped our front wheels to the AM Trick Wheels for improved turning, the front axles would have become live (we had our front axle's with a double bearing set up).
I prefer live axles for ease of maitenance and for ease of sensor application. 116 has, for the past several years, used shaft encoders (or attempted to) to help our autonomous navigation. Because of the dead axle situation this year, we couldn't simply add them to our drive axles this year, and they only spot we could with our simple set up would have been on the output shaft of our gearbox (but because of a lack of space and time we couldn't).
Id also have to say that having an open frame over your wheels is probably a much bigger factor in the ease of replacing your wheels, but a live axle system is alot easier, imho.
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