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Originally Posted by DinerKid
It makes sense that driving 4 CIMs would kill the battery faster than two.
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Yes, that could be true, but (except 2009) I've never seen a competitive robot with a 2 CIM drivetrain. 4 CIM drivetrains are perfectly capable of running for several (2-3) matches without killing your battery. There's almost no situation where I would say a 2 CIM drivetrain would be better than 4 CIM.
A mecanum drive is less likely to "kill your battery" than a traction drive, but even running a very high current single speed traction drive last year we would always make it through a match with 4 CIMs, 2 FPs, and a compressor running. Our batteries left quite low (maybe a second match was possible, probably not) but we made it just fine.