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Unread 07-01-2009, 22:53
Ozeaden Ozeaden is offline
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Re: Are six wheels better than four?

this question came up when we were designing some of our robot and we figured out that haveing 4 wheels is better because this year, surface area isnt going to do anything. what we found is that if you have 4 wheels, more weight is going to be distributed to each wheel while when you have 6, less weight is going to be in each wheel. if you have 4, when you meet maximum weight, each wheel is going to be getting 30 lbs each. when you have 6 wheels, each wheel gets 20 lbs each. it is a 10 lbs difference in all.
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