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Re: Mecanum Drivetrains
To add to Jay's post, we used 4x 30:1/11:1 supershifters with one CIM each. In the past, we have run each of a Jaguar, but we have blown out so many Jags that we have switched back to Victors.
If you want to get creative, you can do all kinds of crazy things with mecanums. For example, in 2011, 1058 built this simple 4-cim mecanum drive with a twist. Each wheel had a third mecanum plate with cut-up pieces of truck mud flap on it. This plate could be actuated into the rollers, freezing the rollers in place, but not the wheel. With these activated, the robot would be a high-traction 4WD that could push other robots around. At the press of a button this would switch to the normal mecanum drive, giving it unmatched speed and maneuverability.
Coming from one of the biggest mecanum fanboys in FIRST- have fun, drive fast, and forget the haters.
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