Direct Drive Four Motor System

[CJO]

On a similar topic, our six wheel "direct" drive originally started out as a 4 motor/ 4 wheel design, which we then expanded to six wheels, and used driveline to connect all of the wheels. Upside, no chin/belts/tensioning . . . Downside? Weight, it was fairly heavy, but it worked well, and we were able to add encodes to get a good idea of where we were. Not quite as modular as a moter per wheel design, but we did it with just the 4 cims, and it did work quite well.

I would strongly encourage teams to try out more designs which use direct/line drives instead of chain/belt.

P.S. here is a picture of the front 4 wheels of our system: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...highlight=1097

[GMKlenklen]

Ok, there is all this talk of "tripping breakers" and such... So I ask what does it take to trip the stock breakers?
Also, because last year was my rookie year... I only have experience with one drive train... but I don't remember all these sorts of problems to do with it.
We had 2 stock trannys, with 2 cims per tranny. 4-wheel drive with the stock skyway wheels, i.e. your standard 4-cim 4-wheel drive slip steering set up.
We didn't ever trip anything... I pushed people around quite a bit, i flew down the field, and I always drove strait. Oh, and we never broke a chain.

Somehow we where amazingly lucky and evaded all of the aforementioned problems... if anyone knows how, I'd like to know!!!