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Re: Adjustable Way of Dropping the Center Wheel

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Originally Posted by RyanN View Post
We used a pnueumatic center wheel. When we wanted to raise it, we put more pressure in; lower it, drop the pressure.
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Originally Posted by Herodotus View Post
I really like the idea, but I will echo what the others have said, as you probably won't have to adjust it much during the season. However I could see the idea being applied to different areas where adjustment is needed.
Well one situation when a pneumatic actuated center wheel is nice is if the game requires alot of pushing power then you can make it so all 6 of your wheels are on the ground at once. That obviously would make it very hard to turn especially if your wheels are wider than an inch. Then when you wanted to turn you could increase pressure and push the center wheel down farther and spin around very nicely.

However if your not going for that as others said you probably wont move them much once you find a nice offset that works for your robot.