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Originally Posted by jman4747
One problem I see in this conversation is the assumption that most tank drives any given mecanum drive may be up against are all always well done.
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Well what's the point of comparing a good tank drive to a bad mecanum drive? Of course the better drivetrain will always come out on top. That's not even a question.
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People seem to also judge said mecanum poorly based on pushing matches, why? Whoever said a mecanum was for pushing?
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Nearly half the people in this thread have claimed that. My post is not dismissing mecanum as bad, it's pointing out the truth that mecanum drivetrains are not good for pushing which multiple people in this thread claimed otherwise.
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Originally Posted by Ether
Jake, it seems we've been talking past each other. None of my posts have been about the "tank pushing mecanum" hot-button issue. I've intentionally stayed out of that debate.
Ever since my post #83, I've been responding specifically to the following statement in your post #81:
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My bad, I should have been more clear in my first post. The point I was trying to get across is that
both a good, and a bad mecanum drive will lose pushing matches against a well built tank or swerve drive. Re-reading my post I realize that was probably not the way it was interpreted.
I will agree that there absolutely are differences in the pushing power between the best and the worst mecanum drives. However, I also assumed from the beginning that we were comparing drivetrains that used the same COTS parts because it's pretty obvious that two drivetrains made using different COTS parts will be different. I figured that was a given since it really applies to every drivetrain, not just mecanum.