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Originally Posted by efoote868
I'm going to respectfully disagree. I've seen veteran teams sit idle for matches because of their swerve drives, for trivial reasons (e.g. the wheels weren't properly aligned at the start of the match).
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I think his point was that if you have the capability to build a functional swerve drive, would there be an advantage do pairing modules together in pairs, rather than all together, or all independent, and how to implement this. In the high majority of cases I doubt running modules in pairs instead of independently would cause a team's robot to sit idle in a match. That would be more due to the overall fact that the team wasn't able to get swerve running properly in general.
I cannot speak to what the pros and cons of running them in pairs would be. We ran all 4 of our modules independently this year. Off the top of my head the only advantage I can see to pairing instead of all independent is using two less motors, but at this point with the number of motors available and the weight that teams have been able to get their swerve drives down to, that doesn't seem like a huge plus.
-Nick