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Re: pic: Whoops! Too much torque

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
The distorted shape of the wheel doesn't look like what I'd expect from either a rotational or side load. It looks like a simple impact to me. The robot might have taken a hard bounce, or it might have run the wheel into a proverbial brick wall at high speed.

Then again, the wheels were redesigned to handle greater side loads without breaking the spokes, and this might just be how they react now.
Thats exactly what happened a simple impact, this happened on our 2009 robot. We had 6 similar wheels like this one on the robot. This was caused by going forward then reversing fairly quickly. The front four wheels then came off the ground then quickly back down crushing this wheel.
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