2 Speed and Mecanum 'Trane

[watered almonds]

It just occurred to me that I've never seen one in FIRST. Can anyone think of a team that's done this? Thanks.

[AndyB]

Don't think its ever been done.

Only way you could do it very well would be with dewalts i think. You need an individual gearbox for each wheel which eliminates most shifters.

What would be the benefits of a shifting design on mecanums? Not like your going to get a tremendous amount of pushing power out of them anyways. High or low gear.

[chris31]

We did a prototype of it over the summer to see how it would work. We ended up changing it around and modifying it but I dont have any pics of that.

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/9930/1002997sc2.th.jpg (http://img406.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1002997sc2.jpg)

[Steve Kaneb]

Team 40 did it in 2006, with DeWalt Transmissions. There really aren't any good pictures of the robot, but the shifters were effective.

[watered almonds]

Thanks for the help. I not planning on doing anything like this (I'm not near a team), but it just seemed to me like somebody in FIRST had probably tried this by now. It just seemed like something that had to happen at least once. : )