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Re: Bump climbing issues

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Originally Posted by Ice Berg View Post
Another place you may be losing power is in the gearbox/motor setup. If your motors, or some gears are slightly misaligned, this could cause a lot of friction and hurt your power output. I would test the current going through your drive train motors when the wheels are free spinning and compare that the the cim motor cure. If the current is high, this would indicate some resistance in the drive train. We had this issue last year, and a little bit of tweaking made a big difference.

-Seth
We considered this, but as I mentioned, we picked up the bot to test the wheels without the bump, and they were functioning fine. I think the motors and gears itself are properly attched.
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