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Re: Mecanum Wheels
Given that the bot is driving on asphalt, I wouldn't trust any of the frc intended mecanum wheels to last any reasonable amount of time. Couple that with the fact that the asphalt likely isn't perfectly flat and you've got a complicated, expensive, heavy, high maintenance and badly performing platform as compared to tankdrive or front wheel steering like what's on the jeep originally.
Even on carpet I wouldn't really trust mecanum wheels with more than 700w per wheel, they just aren't intended to either go that fast or use that much force (depending on how you're geared).
Also what manufacturing resources do you have? this is still a really important question.
If you really want to strafe, swerve or crab drive is probably the easiest/best way to do it well. 1640 has good code resources and you can buy good KOTS swerve drives and a chassis to mount it to.
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