Thread: Position idlers to get better chain wrap -- a question about good practices.
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Re: Position idlers to get better chain wrap -- a question about good practices.
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Originally Posted by M. Krass View Post
I'm just curious to learn what folks have found to be a happy medium or that I'm concerned for nothing.
We used a serpentine chain-wrap system in 2006 and it was a disaster. The chains fell off, they even broke! We had a six motor drive train and so much of the power was lost to friction that we barely had any pushing power at all!

I'll never use tensioners of any kind again. Not in the drive train, on the arm, or anywhere else. Moving the axels is a far more elegant and efficient solution.

And yes, I realize hundreds of teams use tensioners just fine. Thats just my opinion.
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