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Originally Posted by EricH
The ONLY gearbox I know of that had more than 3 motors was 118 last year. That was 6 motors (all the CIMs) for a 2-speed swerve. Most teams count 3 as the max or overkill. (I know 330 has never had more than 2 motors in a gearbox, and for many years only had one.)
And it's not how many motors you have, it's the traction and torque conversion that matters. I know of a case where a 2-motor drive pulled a 4-motor one around (pulling unintentional, the team would have preferred to push).
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118 actually called their crazy 6 motor gearbox 'fish and chips' because it had 2 fisher price motors, and 4 small CIMs, all going into one dewalt gearbox (those dewalts can definitely take a beating). They actually still got pushed around with their 4 wheel crab drive system.
I think there's something that makes a 6 wheel drive better than a 4 wheel drive when you look at dynamic events, because assuming you lower the center wheel, 6 wheel kind of seems to "stays on the ground" more frequently, thus the maximum normal force is always applied fairly evenly to each wheel.