pic: New Drive System for 703

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Originally Posted by Po-ser

I think "Holy moly!!" about sums it up.

Do update and tells us how it drives once you hook it up. Also, once you figure out all of the numbers, could you tell me how much more it would weigh than your tread drive train?

That's really something.

I don't know the exact numbers but I believe someone mentioned it was a little under than twice the weight of our previous drive systems. I'll get the exact numbers as soon as I can.

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

i am very impressed and that does not happen often. One way i have noticed to drastically reduce weight is to go lexan wheels. Get a big block of it and make the wheels, 1126 has been doing that for a few years and the base gets better and better every year.

We thought of something like that but we decided we didn't want to compromise the integrity of the wheels. We figured we could get away with drilling holes in the wheels and gears plus we plan to extensively use Carbon Fiber composites.

Originally Posted by Reaper40

Won’t the wheels take more power?

We suspected it probably would however our initial tests have shown us otherwise. It actually appears to take less effort than our previous tread drives!