Team Lead: Thomas van Liere

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Chat w/ Thomas - 12/9/2022

Good about current Drivetrain

• No “great features”. Seems to work.
• Manufacturable
• Powerful Motors

What needs to improve

• No Camber Adjustment
• Very Little Overall Adjust-ability
• Way too tight
  • Steering very hard to work with
• Small Brake Disks
  • Fully Fixed Brake Discs sub optimal (floating optimal)
• Unsure about Hub-Wheel Contact
• Incredibly inefficient material usage for wheel hubs
• Spline Manufacturability (Output of motor not chosen to match gearbox)
• Not super optimized

What makes a good Drivetrain

• Adjustability
  • Camber (top suspension pickup point), can make 2 separate pieces.
  • Adjust where tie rods for steering connects
• As big brake discs as possible
• Lighter
• Optimal Tire Size Choice?
  • More performance from smaller wheels
    • Harder to design
  • RN at the limit of tire size (esp for hub mounted motors)
    • if AMKs are any bigger, cannot go with current tire
      • Find size of AMKs
    • If AMK is smaller, super easy to design for.