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Re: Newbie needs Help (diff sensor)
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 7 Jun 2006 15:25:56 GMT
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steve <sjbaker1@=nomorespam=airmail.net>
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Mr S wrote:
> On a side note, your work on testing the motorcycle tires for
> traction is of interest to me, and I never got around to asking,
> but on a side note here, when you tested this tire
> <http://philohome.com/traction/2903.jpg> do you think that the
> performace would be improved if the tire were filled with a kind
> of PFE tubing (so as to make it a run flat kind of tire) so that it
> did not suffer from excessive compression of the rubber tire?
I would have expected that compression would be a good thing because
it would increase the area of the 'contact patch' - which increases
traction - which is a good thing - right?
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Not so obvious. If you increase the surface the pressure per surface unit decreases proportionnaly (at least on hard surface)... Actually I would expect little or no variation in traction power. Philo (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Newbie needs Help (diff sensor)
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| Philo, That's interesting, and looks to explain why it is that I've never been able to observe the RCX output going to thermal or current protection cutoff? I've one largish sumo type bulldozer style robot with 4 treads that can easily push 4-5 (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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