Thread: Lowered Center Wheel for 6 wheel drive
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Re: Lowered Center Wheel for 6 wheel drive
lol, I was just looking into this same question.

229's 2005 robot had the wheels lowered by 3/16th of an inch, and it used the same rought top that IFI sells with its wheels. It didn't hop very much, but it rocked nastilly. Most robots at 1/8th of an inch don't rock unbareably, but if their CG is high, then they hop in an annoying way.

5/32nds of an inch is what makes sense right now, unless the CG is low, in which case 1/8". 3/16", I guess, is too annoying of a rocking motion for me.

There are threads on this, BTW, and I'm not a MechE, I just happened to have looked into this earlier.
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