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Originally Posted by Bkeeneykid
Mecanum wheels are a little different. I guess it was bad of me for assuming tank drive. With mecanum drives, there's significantly less issue than a tank drive. Because each one is on rollers, you don't have issues of stalling and back driving that you would with the second example up there. You still have issues with potentially offset voltage, but that's pretty easy to solve with a encoder on each wheel. That's expensive, and you might as well just buy more motor controllers with that money, but it'll work. Good luck with your project!
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Alright thanks! Well our team is currently breaking off into 3 groups and we are building 2 KOP drop six bases and one mecanum to teach the new people how stuff works. So I thought by using TalonSR's for PWMs and TalonSRX's for can would teach mechanical, electrical, and programming the disadvantages, advantages, and how to do both types of motor controllers.
(Yes I said drop 6 and we are only using one cim for each gear box on those. I understand they will drift and I planed to use that to my advantage because it would throw in a curveball that the new programmers would have to figure out how to get around in the fastest and easiest time possible. A good prep. for build season
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