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Re: The Center Wheel
It seems like that your problem with dropping the wheel is just because you think it will decrease the robot's stability, which in my opinion it will although I don't have an answer for you on how much, but if this is your problem I say go with your instincts and keep them at the same level. Although in order to gain some of the manueverabilty that dropping allows, make your outer wheels omni wheels and have your center wheel be traction.
On a different note and this is something I think we'll be trying in the offseason is, and we stole this from SparX (1126), do a 6 wheel with a 1/8" center drop, with the center wheel be traction wheels along with one of the outer sets. While having the other end be omnis, this will change the bot in a way that if you go in one direction, so all traction wheels are touching, you have more traction to the ground, or travel in the opposite direction, with one set of traction and one set of omni wheels touching the ground, which will give you more maneuverability
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2010
Team 2228(FRC) - Drive Team Lead, Drive Coach, Mechanical Team
Team 3750(FTC) - Team Lead
2009
Team 2228(FRC) - Mechanical Team, Driver at RIT, and Hartford Regionals, and Drive coach at Ruckus
*Second Place at Ruckus
Team 3750(FTC) - Team Lead, and Drive coach at Clarkson Regional
*Second Place at Clarkson Regional
2008
Team 1930(FRC) - Worked on Mechanical, Electrical, and Programming.
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