Rover wheels @ Eve

[bjerrang]

Finally landed on eve , but my wheels keeps breaking all the time. Got a engineer with but , still wont work. It worked fine on kerbin.

Fully fueled 20T

Edited January 2, 2021 by bjerrang

[king of nowhere]

that's because of the additional weight on it, caused by eve's gravity.

not sure if more wheels would fix it, though

[fourfa]

Eve gravity is 1.7 times Kerbin's.  Try testing the same craft on Kerbin with enough ballast to weigh 1.7 times as much, or use the F12 cheat menu to hack gravity to 1.7 for testing, and see what happens.  Just going by gut feel, that rover looks pretty big for just 4 wheels.  Eve's gravity is too high to do much EVA construction...  Not many options other than send a new craft or revert to before the launch...

[vv3k70r]

4 hours ago, bjerrang said:

Finally landed on eve , but my wheels keeps breaking all the time. Got a engineer with but , still wont work. It worked fine on kerbin.

Eve is Eveel for wheel.

Build them from construction parts on electric motors.

 

But for this rover - set traction low, friction around 0,5 (only when break and stand set higher) do not use breaks to much. Make spring and damper quite soft to have full suport (so no great speed) of all the wheels all the time.

You can glide forward on Eve, but any manouver with apllying force (by friction, traction, breaking) against the wheels is against the wheels (and they protest).

Propably You choose wheels that are not big enough? Not as many as it have (like tank)?

 

Eve atmosphere is for planes.

Edited January 2, 2021 by vv3k70r

[Arugela]

This is why we need tank treads... Could tank treads be improvised?

[bjerrang]

17 hours ago, vv3k70r said:

Eve is Eveel for wheel.

Build them from construction parts on electric motors.

 

But for this rover - set traction low, friction around 0,5 (only when break and stand set higher) do not use breaks to much. Make spring and damper quite soft to have full suport (so no great speed) of all the wheels all the time.

You can glide forward on Eve, but any manouver with apllying force (by friction, traction, breaking) against the wheels is against the wheels (and they protest).

Propably You choose wheels that are not big enough? Not as many as it have (like tank)?

 

Eve atmosphere is for planes.

That thingy worked. Jævlig bra!!

Brakes has little effect , any more settings tweaks ?

 

 

[vv3k70r]

16 hours ago, Arugela said:

This is why we need tank treads... Could tank treads be improvised?

Tracks have no use on space vessel, because on rough terrain they glide from wheels. But many wheels even without tracks is a good solution.

2 hours ago, bjerrang said:

Brakes has little effect , any more settings tweaks ?

Use breaks and high frcition anly when You are standing still on almost flat terrain. To stop a vehicle on low friction and low breaks try turning (not working with skid wheels, but You do not use them).

It could help to turn off steering in one wheels - You gonna get more control in high speed.