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Originally Posted by safiq10
Currently we are stuck on West coast drive... We are absolutely stumped on what benefits it gives and why we see some of the more elite teams using it?
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A west coast drive provides a ton of advantages. As others have said, you can maximize your wheel base, improving robot stability. It also can make servicing a drivetrain insanely fast. Our modified WCD set up allows us to switch out our entire drivetrain for entirely new components in under 10 minutes without having to temporarily remove/loosen any non drivetrain component.
Instead of prototyping with plywood and machining metal for the final version, they make their prototypes out of sheet metal and machine the final robot out of wood. :) - Chris is me [more] 
19-04-2014, 18:41
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