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Re: Drivetrain Questions
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Originally Posted by roboticWanderor View Post
Hey there CD, just thinking of some drive train ideas. and was wondering how to do a few things
had a few questions:
what is the best way to tension toothed belt/roller chain?
we have had real problems with chain and belt tension in past robots and it's a problem i want to try and address next year
We used some short pieces of 80/20 and put some roller that we attached to it you can kind of see it here
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