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Originally Posted by FrankJ
Since mecanum needs four gear boxes, shifters add bit of weight & complexity. you would want to gear them fast & faster since you are not going to win pushing matches against well built pushers anyway. I don't think shifters would be worth it. They really don't do as bad as most think against the average drive train. Once again I am not talking about winning pushing matches as much as avoiding them. A well driven mecanum with good drivers & a plan can drive around pushing matches. In this game, lining up on the feeder & aiming is a big plus for mecanum.
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Thank you for your advice! this answered a lot of questions/concerns that I was having. We are most likely not going to go the shifter/mecanum route in the future as it is expensive,heavy, and not worth it. The reason that I was concerned about being fast and able to deal with pushers was that in our elim rounds we had to defend our teams long range shooter from some of the robots with blockers.
When would you say mecanum is worth it?