how does one go about making a 6 wheel config drivetrain?

[EricVicenti]

Originally Posted by EricH

Some teams won't touch #25 in the drive with the length of the overpass. They say it's too weak. It isn't, but if not done right, it can be. (The last time 330 used #25 on a robot was the second stage of their shooter wheel drive in 2006 going to the wheel. It was the first time since 2001, when contact was minimal and #25 was used in the drive. Later, we had a lot of problems with drive chains jumping while using 2001 as a practice bot.)

Agreed, in 2007 we didn't do it right, and chain was snapping all the time. I am trying to remember what exactly went wrong, but our tensioning system was terribly designed, if at all. I dont think we had a plan for tensioning at all untill we were mostly built. Alignment might have also been an issue. (IE, if the sprockets were not close enough to coplanar, the chain would pop off.)