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Originally Posted by Aur0r4
We used big mecanum wheels during Breakaway...they did surprisingly well on those ramps. I think bigger ones could probably *manage* to get over most of the defenses.
However, we found out that even the impact of coming down off the Breakaway ramps eventually started bending the heck out of the roller support tabs, eventually jamming them. Later in the competition season a major pit task was fixing all the bent tabs....and at like 400 bucks for a set, we weren't in the position to have spares.
I think mecanums would eventually get wrecked in this game.
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We used mecanums in 2010 as well. Only year we've ever done it. I wasn't on the team at the time, but we still have the chassis from our 2010 bot with wheels still attached, and they seem fine. This could have just been constant fixing, or we just got lucky. Either way, mecs offer little that another drivetrain can't offer you in this game, at the expense of being more likely to struggle with the defenses. A decent driver should be able to maneuver this field easily on a tank drive.