Drive train questions

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Gearheads1

We are looking at doing a 6WD system this year and had initially looked at having 2cims direct drive the center wheels and then use belts or chains to power the outer wheels.The design has evolved into using a single cim on each center wheel that is chained to the front and using another cim to direct drive each rear wheel. Does anyone see any issues with the evolved setup.I am concerned about matching speeds between wheel sets and a potential loss of power, but I may be worrying for nothing. Thanks for your thoughts.

Brian Holmgren
Team 1723

As long as the gear ratios are the same there should be no issue and the motor should share the load just fine.

If you had different motors then you would have needed to (closely) match motor speeds using different gear ratios but since both sets of motors are the same, all you need to do is have the same gearboxes and you'll be fine.