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Re: New Vex Mecanum
We're using the 6" Vex Mecanums, and have been very pleased with them!
If you have the old rollers on your 6" Vex Mecanums, definitely switch to the new ones! We had received the mecanums assembled with the old rollers assembled and a pack of new ones to put on... we put the mecanums with old rollers on when we made our practice bot (we make the practice bot first), and were generally underwhelmed with how it strafed slowly, but it was our first mecanum drive. When we made the competition robot we put new rollers on so that we'd never have to make the change... we were stunned how much more smoothly it performed, particularly when strafing (when the rollers are spinning fastest)! We didn't initially realize the difference was almost entirely the old vs new rollers, but eventually realized it...
Through two events with the comp bot and many hours on the practice bot, all our 6" Vex Mecanums with new rollers are holding up very well!
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