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Originally posted by Cory
not neccessarily, lets say that you have wings that come down, these wings have file cards on the end to anchor them to carpet. if those wings only weigh fifteen pounds, youve got even less than 15lbs of downforce on those cards. If you have file cards on the bottom of your robot however, you would have much much more downward force on the cards, giving you better traction.
The Point: unless you have weight over your traction material, youre not gonna have much traction
Cory
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File cards are a bad example. The amount of traction you get with file cards has very little to do with friction. Instead, the file cards mesh with the carpet which is a force completely unrelated to friction.
Matt