Thread: Consideration of 4463 Drive Module (am-2433)
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Re: Consideration of 4463 Drive Module (am-2433)
So a couple of things...The part you are looking at is an all in one solution. You buy that partor well 2 of them I think... and Bob's your uncle you have a drivetrain.

Something to consider...The part is 30 inches long. Two of them make up 60 inches, and the end bar will add another 5 inches overall of frame perimeter using 65 inches total. Given that you get 112 that means your robot can only be about 23 inches wide. each side is about 4 inches wide using up 8 of those 23 inches leaving just 15 inches in the middle. where your sub systems for shooting and loading disks go. unless you go up, which you will probably have to do. (someone please check my math on this one.)

I am more of a roll your own kind of guy, but if it works for your team and fits into your design this could be a really big time saver.

Hope this helps, and before I did anything I would want to model the whole thing in Autodesk Inventor...but that is just me.

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