Traction Control for a Turning Tank-Drive

29-01-2009, 20:17

DanL

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Re: Traction Control for a Turning Tank-Drive

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Originally Posted by Rick Wagner

Your thinking on that seems sound, but as you can't "track" (no slippage condition) and turn, by definition,

What exactly do you mean by this? I don't quite understand. Can you elaborate?

And I completely agree with you regarding usage of traction control in a pushing match -- a TCS would probably do the exact opposite of what you want. You definitely need an on/off switch.

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