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Re: pic: V3 Concept Octocanum

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Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay View Post
Looking awesome! It might be a little late to ask this, but why the 6" mecanum wheels? If you're going for compact, you could use a 4" mecanum wheel and change your ratios to achieve the same speeds.
I'm guessing the idea was to have the mecanum mode drive faster than the traction mode (different size wheels is a quick way to do that). Of course, you could also accomplish this by creating reduction between the belt sprockets.
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