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Re: The in-wheel swerve shifter!

Its a really cool idea. I would be really scared of the gears teeth shearing off that close to the final reduction of the drive train.
This may also cause major latency in the drive train something that i don't even know if the shifting could compensate for. Also you could not do on the fly shifting and the complexity of the system is high little lone putting it in the already complex swerve drive. I love the idea tho and think that it may have uses in non drive applications.

Also a RS-540 would work well too, 775's are over kill in my opinion.