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Originally Posted by MichaelBick
16fps has clear advantages. If you have a higher top speed then you can get to your destination faster.
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In FRC, 16fps for a single speed has no advantages to 12fps for a single speed. By the time you accelerate to the top speed, you're already clear across the field.
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Originally Posted by MichaelBick
They way we got around the acceleration problem was by adding more motors(something you have already done). Also, our low gear is traction limited(if it wasn't teams like 254 with 6 CIMs would blow their main every time they hit another robot)
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You can't use 6 cims in present mecanum drives.
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Originally Posted by MichaelBick
Also, planetaries are extremely heavy(especially ones big/strong enough for drive). For all the weight of the planetary, you might as well put in another shifter(which would also be easier to fabricate because you could put it COTS).
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Controlling a robot through 4 independent shifts on a mecanum drive would be difficult.
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Originally Posted by MichaelBick
This doesn't even start to mention the fact that you are removing all the benefits of mecanum. Mecanums are easy and relatively light. With this, you are making it heavy and extremely hard to manufacture. You might as well run a swerve.
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8 years ago if I told you that in the future, mecanum wheels would be available for purchase to every team at a reasonable cost, you would have called me crazy.
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