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Re: Mecanum vs Treads

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
Also important, mecanums need all four wheels solidly on the ground to function correctly. See that drawing of that bump around the entire pyramid? That bump means mecanums are going to hate driving near the pyramids. Any precision driving you try to do near the pyramids is guaranteed to take twice as long on mecanums as it would on a 6 wheel drive.
I don't understand this at all, how does the bump make mecanums not work? We used them last year and got double or single bridge balances very easily
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