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Re: pic: 1086 Blue Cheese Legen-dairy Drive Mark4

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Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe View Post
Have you seen any issues with dropping the traction wheels instead of the mecanum wheels? You'll see more side loads with the traction wheels.
Actually, mecanum wheels always apply sideloads due to their nature, and the traction wheels only have a side load when we are being pushed. We also spend most of our time on mecanum wheels, so we wanted those to be the stationary wheels.

Also, if we damage the module, we can remove the module for a match or so and just run a mecanum system.
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