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Re: Smaller Diameter Wheels - What's the advantage?
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Originally Posted by Chris is me
A smaller wheel saves weight in the wheel. You also need less of a reduction to get your wheel to an acceptable speed / torque / whatever, which itself saves weight. A lighter wheel allows you to accelerate a little better too. Really, I would rather see this thread posted asking of the advantage of bigger wheels.
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Compared to our older robots, everything was the same except going from 6 6" to 8 8" wheels. Without getting into gear ratios, we are getting a hell of a lot more torque and pushing power.
As far as CG goes, we adjusted for it, by placing everything a lot lower this year as it was well-suited for the game. We like it so much that I think we are sticking to 8" wheels hopefully for next year.
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