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Re: Tracks or Wheels?

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Originally Posted by pfreivald View Post
Last year we 'simply used' (hah!) a four-wheeled system with two of the IFI traction wheels chained to the kitbot transmission -- it worked great at school on the gym floor, but when we went to the Rochester Rally (thanks again, 1511! You rock!) we found that we had so much traction we couldn't turn, and had to do a big re-design.

I can imagine that tracks could easily experience a similar problem.

Patrick Freivald -- Team 1551
My team had the same problem our rookie year. It is because the robot was longer than it was wide, so the motors didn't have the torque to turn the bot. It will be even harder to do with treads because of the increased traction.


A poll would be nice here.
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