It's been a long couple of days...
Re-chained our drive pods with #35 chain in a night. Remarkably we were able to make everything fit.
We discovered that some spacers had been installed improperly, which likely contributed to chain breaks, but installed the #35 chain anyway as insurance.
We did a bunch of driving around and everything went smoothly for once! We're able to conquer the low bar, moat, rock wall, and rough terrain (all in low-friction flavors).
Our "W-Drive" is proving to be quite smooth over a variety of obstacles. It seems to be effectively mixing the great carpet performance of Colsons with the good cushion of pneumatic wheels when going over obstacles.
On the other hand we've blown up a couple welds, thrown tons of belts, and are just starting to work on PID drive/arm tuning... so... it's going somewhat rough at the moment, but are working to correct as much as we can as quickly as we can.
Going on hour 11 today... wish us luck!
If you aren't sure, Q&A. Now. - EricH [more] 
20-02-2016, 19:38
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