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Re: Mecanum Drivetrains

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
Interesting, every mecanum drive system I saw that year (excepting 357) had issues with the bridge. What wheels? Did you do anything to the rollers? What sort of feedback did you have?
Our mecanum was also very good going up the bridge. We had a good bridge lowering device but often had to go up second to help push another mecanum up.

Single Balance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWYN5xVIyzw&t=11m1s

Here is one of us double balancing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWYN5xVIyzw&t=13m15s

We just had the 8" andy Mark wheels.
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