Drivetrain ratio

[iseau395]

This post has a list of a bunch of drivetrain layouts and their pros/cons:

Catalogue of Drive Gearings

Due to frequent questions and discussions on drive speeds, but not a lot of resources on the layouts of the possible gearings themselves, I’ve created this resource for people to see a catalogue of drive speeds that I’ve deemed as viable, and some commentary on each layout. All drives shown here are on 6 motors, and all drives here are compatible with center traction wheel. (some drives have 8 wheels so traction will be offset from center). The layouts shown can easily be translated to 4 motor …

@40994B_Atomic_Nuke

I wouldn’t add more motors because that would limit the amout of motors you can use for things other than driving

6 motor drives are very common among higher-level teams, because you often don’t need more then 2 motors for the rest of your robot (assuming you have access to pneumatics). For example in this year’s game, a lot of teams have a 6 motor drive, 1 motor intake, and a 1 motor shooter, with all of the rest of the mechanisms on the robot powered by pneumatics.

@40994B_Atomic_Nuke

I would recomend that you either set the motor torque to the most

The motors are automatically at the highest torque, the torque function can only lower it