Transmission Design Help

[Jeff K.]

Originally Posted by JVN

The wider wheels will likely cause increased turning scrub.

You'll have a greater sideload so it may wear your wheels down a bit more when turning, but that also means that you have a lot of sideload traction that will help you stay planted so teams will have a harder time trying to push you from the side. Say, if have two robots with the exact same transmissions, but one has 1" wide wheels and the other has 2" wide wheels, the one with 2" wide wheels will be a lot harder and sometimes impossible to push sideways, while the robot with 1" wide wheels, you can actually push around. So I would say that width this year plays an important role. If you can shoot and not get pushed around so easily, from any angle, you would be a force to be reckoned with. That's just what we noticed this year going with the 2" wide wheels.