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Re: Rookie DriveTrain Help~! plz
Sweet, good to know.
Love the ChiefDelphi community, for all their help.
Also what would be preferable, 4 CIMs all powering the traction wheels with 2 gearboxes, OR powering every wheel with its own CIMple box + CIM.
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Re: Rookie DriveTrain Help~! plz
i would recommend doing 2 motors per gearbox, driving all 4 wheels. im not sure how fond of chain drives you are, but getting power to those back wheels, omni or not, will give you a little more pushing power that might come in handy. its never a bad thing to have the extra umph, whether you use it or not
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Re: Rookie DriveTrain Help~! plz
This is a great whitepaper for you to check out: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1443

Also, if you search CD-media there are tons of technical resources similar to this one to help teams out.
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Re: Rookie DriveTrain Help~! plz
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Slick wheels are not particularly good at providing force for a robot. Honestly, I don't see why teams that use them bother even driving them with chain.

Omni wheels are better, because they do have traction in one direction. They have no traction in the direction you want them to have no traction in!
It offers some level of redundancy, sort of. plus it allows you to reclaim some of the normal force lost to undriven wheels.
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Re: Rookie DriveTrain Help~! plz
Hey all,
we just got our omni-wheels and installed them.
Everything pretty much works perfectly the way we wanted to well just the drivetrain at least...
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Re: Rookie DriveTrain Help~! plz
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Hey all,
we just got our omni-wheels and installed them.
Everything pretty much works perfectly the way we wanted to well just the drivetrain at least...
Happy to hear! if there are any other problems you are having, feel free to ask - CD is full of people with lots of experience that are all very happy to help.
Perhaps other problems you are encountering can be addressed with such a quick fix as well?
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