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Re: [FTC]: FTC weight and number of drive motors

Its not always about what the drive train does to make the robot successful, yes it is a very important part of the robot since you wouldn't do anything with out it. But it really depends on what you design your robot to do. A great number of drive trains are variations of a "tank drive" Take for example Exploding Bacon last year started with a fast 6 wheel 2 motor drive robot. By the end of the season we had outfitted it to a 1:1 Geared 6 wheel 4 motor drive robot. We did this because we wanted to have a robot that was strong in pushing matches. The drive train is a big discussion with our team, last year we talked about it for on the upperside of 3 weeks.

As I said It really is up to you what you want your attributes to be. Anything you build can be successful if it is implied correctly, there really isn't a "golden drive train" in any application of mechanics really, each has its own weaknesses and strengths. Also I wouldn't worry about weight, there is no weight limit. Battery power, we didn't have any problems we ran 5 motors almost constantly during matches.

But thats my $0.02

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