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Re: Hexagonal Chassis + 6 CIM swerve drive

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Originally Posted by asid61 View Post
This seems pretty good.
Basically cbale says to have one gearbox for each two independent coaxial modules. That way you only need 3 gearboxes.
If you've got 6 independent drive modules, you'd need to have 6 steering motors; for consistency (and performance) sake I want to use the same motors on each setup. You can't use 6 of anything except CIMs, which means you'd have to change motors for the last 2 steering motors, or do a 3/3 setup; I fear this may cause more problems than it solves, and that the issue will be much more easily remedied by adding non-driven wheels.