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(...) Thanks Brian, I doubt I will attempt your suggested test of driving into a wall (this scares me very much!) but I hear what you are saying. Based on Steve's reply, I have decided that 6 motors pushing is better than 4. Since I have already (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) It's been my experience that a robot with 6 motors will push harder than a robot with 4 motors. (...) If you're concerned about spending money on batteries, your best bet is to go with a 2 motor robot. If you want to build a really strong sumo (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Great. My method was to combine the motor outputs down to two axles (left & right) and then do the gearing down/up. I also played with running the "boost" motors at a different gear ratio than the other four, but wasn't sure it would help (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Release candidate brickos-0.2.6.10.5 available for testing
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The brickOS team is pleased to announce our next test release. (Can you believe we are days shy of a year since our last?) We will likely do one more before our formal brickos-1.0.0 release. Our plan is to release 0.2.6.11 followed by a testing (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Okay I've done it. I have the drive train all figured out with the exact gearing I wanted. Now the question to answer before I totally tear down and rebuild a complete robot is; will adding an additional 2 motors to help in forward and reverse (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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