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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?
One of the important things in 2012 was to set your speed controllers to brake mode and not coast mode if you were using mecanum drive. As much as a problem as this would have been for a 6WD, we found very early on that trying to balance with these settings was near to impossible with mecanum.

I don't know for certain, but I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the bad bridge-balancing mecanums never did this.
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