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yes and no
Posted by Ken Leung at 1/16/2001 8:55 PM EST
Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.
In Reply to: Re: 4WD with 4 motors
Posted by Josh on 1/16/2001 3:06 PM EST:
: This is just a comment, and maybe an ignorant one, but wouldn't 4WD with 4 different motors suck a little too much battery power?
It all depense if you are willing to use those juice from the battery onto a strong drive train. If you are going to have a fully motorized robot that will do everything, then you want to watch out for how much juice each part of your robot use up, and might not able to afford another set of motor on the base. Don't do it if you only have battery power for 1/2 of the game. And you will have to watch out about charging batteries between games. If you end up in the finals, the games are going to be much more compact in between, and you want fully charged battery every round. So if you are draining a lot of battery every round, it might be dangerous that you might run out due to the time needed to fully charge a battery, although you can ask other teams to help you out.
On the other hand, if all your robot want to do is pushing and maybe one or two more function, then I say GO AHEAD! A strong AND fast drive train is always welcome in this competition. There are many cases out there where teams choose to use two motors or other factors that let them consider four.
So to answer your question, yes it will suck a lot of power from the battery, but it's not too much if you have spare power.
By the way, are you serious about using 4 different motors~? or do you mean two set of two identical motors?
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