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Originally Posted by Kayra
If the motor fails by seizing then I can see that.
if the motor fails because of an open coil then it would be best to have 4 wheels powered by separate motors.
If say the front right fails, you can shut down the front left and just use the 2 rear motors to travel.
It does give you some form of redundancy, but at the cost of a greater likelihood of failure (4 motors).
A decision like this would likely be influenced by our estimated MTBF under full lunar conditions.
If the estimated MTBF is high then our greater concern will be getting stuck
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Is this more like it? (Close to my original vision...)
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