Thread: pic: Lightweight (relatively) 2 CIM Shifting Swerve Drive
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Re: pic: Lightweight (relatively) 2 CIM Shifting Swerve Drive
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Originally Posted by asid61 View Post
Can you put one bearing in the gear and one in the opposite side of the wheel? You still get the support that way, as well as alignment. And you still only use two bearings.
you could do that, although it's not the optimal solution in my mind because the bolts would be loaded in shear by the weight of the robot.
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Originally Posted by hrench View Post
really amazing. Now all you need is to be allowed eight CIMS on the bot. and a refrigerated main breaker.
this accually only uses 1 CIM and 1 mini CIM. The breaker would most likely be okay, assuming that auto-shifting code was used.
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