Help out rookie/less experienced teams

[Tim Delles]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

A few things I want to clear up;

There is nothing wrong with the kit wheels and there is no such thing as "too much traction". The kit wheels have even less traction than the IFI traction wheels that are recommended above.

Just want to clear this up.

You can have to much traction (depending on the gearing of your drive train) All teams should (after the drive train is complete) should bring the robot up to proper wieght (using paper wieghts or what not to load down the robot) and then push against the wall. If your wheels begin to slip you are good. However if your wheels do not move, thus forceing the motors to stall a course of action must be taken to keep the motors from stalling.

There are a number of ways, the most common is reducing the coefficent of friction of the wheels.