How are teams mounting drivetrain encoders on WCD?

[Hitchhiker 42]

Originally Posted by ollien

B) What do you mean by preloading chain? How would this help? You said something about moving the robot forward and then back, but I don't understand how this would help.

Thanks so much!

I'd assume this would mean stretching out the chain before actually putting it on finally, so that it stretches less during actual use.

[Cothron Theiss]

Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42

I'd assume this would mean stretching out the chain before actually putting it on finally, so that it stretches less during actual use.

I believe what they're really talking about is temporarily pre-tensioning, or removing the slack before each match. You could call that pre-loading, but I consider what you mentioned to be a better description for pre-loading.