Direct Drive to Diff E Revo Build

[sikeston34m]

Originally Posted by ilpufxit

For a crawler, you're absolutely right, keep the cg low. For speed though, your suspension can't keep that much weight on the ground going over bumps, too much momentum. Could work well on a totally smooth surface.

I like the idea of motors where the diffs go, 2 motors opens up a whole range of control options.

Aaaah, I see your point. On road would be alot different and would work much better.

I like the idea of putting motors where the diffs go also. Aside from redesigning the bulks to hold them, this is going to be like running locked diffs in the front and rear.

How do we use front and rear motors, and retain our diff slip?

We've talked about an inline with the shaft slipper clutch here several times. How about instead have a centrifigal clutch in the wheel hub? The hub would have to spin up some before it would gradually apply torque to the wheel rim. Let's make this run on a large one-way bearing so when we put on the brakes, it will stop.

This setup would only "cushion" in forward, but who runs races in reverse?