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Originally Posted by akoscielski3
If everyone was havng problems with 6WD why was 1114 moving so easily with 8WD (2010).  |
There's considerably less "bounce" in the 8WD we had compared to the 6WD that 330 employed with the same wheels. If construct a polygon between the centres of our wheels this year (or any standard 8WD) so get an upside down trapezoid. If you do the same with a 6WD you get a triangle resting on a vertex. Looking at these shapes, it's easy to see why one would have more rock, and thus more bounce.
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Originally Posted by AustinSchuh
I would be very surprised if 1114 had all 8 wheels in the same plane. I bet that the center four wheels were dropped slightly, on the order of 1/8".
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Austin is correct. Here's a picture where our drop is depicted pretty clearly.
http://www.simbotics.org/resources/g...l/_3260103.jpg