Drive Train Size for Ramp

[MrForbes]

Are you asking this question:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=52413


or are you asking about wheelbase? ie front to back wheel spacing

[kibbs425]

My opinion... if you can afford it don't leave it up the other team to have a configuration to match your robot, design your robot to match any configuration, i.e. someone very well could have a kiwi or something similar and thats not going to work with a set wheel path to get up.

That said. Physically, probably not larger than 38 in. wide and you could probably count on the middle 12-15 in. not being used too much but the more you can give them for a trak the less you ahve to rely on the other drive to precisely drive it up. Probably going to be some mad dashes for the ramp.

Also if you cam make it shallower than 30 deg. that would be better but I know we are personally planning on at 30 deg max ramp. Not wat we want to go up but the robot can do it if we have to.