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Re: Mecanum: VEX VS. AndyMark

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Originally Posted by zinthorne View Post
I realize that vex has fixed the problem with their mecanum wheels, but I would still not use them. We used them last year and were not able to strafe very well. We did also get several of the bad batches and had to replace so many. I cannot recall the amount of times we had to stop drive practice to replace or repair a wheel because of a wheel breaking. We made it through 2 competitions on our competition bot and then replaced all the wheels, because they were starting to break. All the other teams I saw use Andy Mark wheels could strafe much better and they did not break.
Are you confident your strafing problem was due to the wheels and not a flaw in the design of the system? I wouldn't just assume the wheels would make you stake way worse....maybe look into your structure a little more.

But for everyone else, we have test with the vex Mecanums and they worked very well for us.
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