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Unread 10-01-2009, 21:04
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Re: pic: Whats going on HERE?

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Originally Posted by thefro526 View Post
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.
actually more like 4-6(we actually put them on a 2x4 and clamped them underneath our 2008 robot and drove it on the FRP and clocked the speed....



anyways.....its still a prototype
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