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Unread 10-01-2009, 21:01
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Re: pic: Whats going on HERE?

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Originally Posted by gorrilla View Post
on the prototype there are(sorry if i dident make that clear)

the window motors are 90pm and the other ones are like 85 so it shouldent make that much of a difference(i hope) any suggestions?

we could also use the globe motors if we have to.....

just what we had lying around is what we used...the final version will absolutely be legal...


another reason for the swerve drive is that a tank drive wont turn the robot(so we thought why turn the robot, when we could turn the wheels?)
Let's put it this way, you might want to write off this design while you still have the chance. This drive train will be very inefficient with two different kinds of drive motors thats aren't linked together to equalize the power. If you really want to build a swerve with window motors as the drive motors then I'd use a coaxial swerve with centralized gearboxes to equalize the output.

Also something else to think about is that your robot is going to travel at about 2fps if you direct drive off of the window motors.
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