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Re: pic: Team 701 Mecanum Design View 1

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Originally Posted by Ben Piecuch
Overall, I like the integration into the kit chassis. I'm just not sure why you didn't use the kit gearboxes as well.

BEN
I also enjoy seeing how folks work with the kit frame--it's cheap as free, has zero lead time, and handles just about anything you could want to do. (Alright, fine, live axles take a bit more work.)

I've got three possible theories on the absence of the KoP gearbox:

1) It may just be cheaper for them to build four ridiculously-simple gearboxes than to order two more from IFI. (AndyMarks would be another option, but then you've got two different sets of spare parts.)

2) I don't quite know how you'd run the encoder on the kit gearbox.

3) Perhaps there's some weight advantage to it?
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