3 motor drive train

[Mohsin]

Originally Posted by Cory

Im going to go out on a limb here and guess that with efficient weight reduction, you could make a 6 motor transmission that weighed the same amount as the current kitbot one, or slightly more. It's all a question of whether it fits the design criteria of your team's robot.

What do you mean by power? Draining the battery? sure, it does, but any team that makes a 6 motor drive will have considered that and deemed it an acceptable penalty.

You don't need motors for arms, you can use pneumatics, and there's still multiple motors left over if you use 6 drive motors.

remember the CMI motors have weight, and if you use the other motors, the gears would have to use weight, but as for pneumatics well if you want to use them a lot, a compressor would be the best choice, but it adds weight and drains more power from the batteries, we found that out last year. and i will agree with you in the desigh criteria, whatever you wnat and think best suits your needs, build it

Mohsin
Team 772
Civil Engineers = Tree Huggers