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Originally Posted by pakratt1991
Wow, these are sexy!
I'll say it again that thes tracks never slipped on the carpet and this would only increase the performance.
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I think you may be overestimating the traction here; if the tracks don't ever slip then you can''t turn, and even if you could turn (by the frame flexing or something like that), you would draw massive amounts of current. A cim has a stall current of 133 amps and the FP stalls at, IIRC, 63 amps. The largest breaker you can use is 40A and the FP will smoke if run near 40A draw regularly. Now, breakers don't pop instantly, but that is still a bad situation to be in.
Brecoflex themselves actually say that red Linatex has a mu of 1.6, and it is in their interest to report a high number*. 1.6 is very, very high, but many robots can put out enough power (at least for a short time) to make it slip. Roughtop incline conveyor belting has been reported to possess a mu of 1.3, thus, you are getting about 23% more traction than a robot running common materials on a traction wheel. So, the traction is quite high, but definitely not 'unslippable.'
*I am not implying that they Brecoflex is falsifying data, I am merely saying that they wouldn't report a mu lower than it actually is, due to their financial interest in the matter.