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Re: Mecanum Differential Drive

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Originally Posted by DampRobot View Post
Are they really quicker/easier to make? At this point you essentially do a COTS everything WCD, whereas the butterfly, you have to make the plates for the wheels and mill the tubing. I'd also expect that WCDs are a lot harder to get wrong than butterfly drives, at least for most teams.

Of course, basically all drives in FRC (except possibly swerve) are to the point where they work quickly and well 90% of the time. It's funny to think just a few years ago just driving around the field was considered something to be proud of.
It was a loaded statement I suppose, as we haven't run a WCD with a COTS gearbox yet. That certainly brings it to be more comparable.

If we do WCD again next year, we'll be sticking with our bearing blocks. If we also purchased COTs blocks it makes the drives pretty comparable.

With our router in house the butterfly side plates are very fast to make.

Last edited by AdamHeard : 23-11-2013 at 20:58.