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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
I can say whatever you do try to keep that cable off the ground. It rendered our poor little robot useless because even though we had a ramp. The tether was in the way of us getting to the ramp. It was a small string and when I slightly pushed the robot forward it tangled in our mecanum wheels. 
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The first time we tried, we used a relatively small string. Huge mistake - it wrapped around and then snapped the driveshaft.
One transmission later, we changed to a Home Depot braided rope. No problem through the playoffs. I'm not sure how it would fare with mecanums - we have fat Colsons in the front and skinny omnis in the back.