Thread: Pros & Cons of Carb/Swerve Drive Train.
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Re: Pros & Cons of Carb/Swerve Drive Train.
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Originally Posted by team2061 View Post
the other way around, our team would like to go with a standard 6 wheel drive train with middle wheel lowered, but our mentor wants to go with a 6 wheeled swerve train for some reason,like the picture above
Take it from me 6-wheel crab is overkill and overly complex. I cannot think of any advantage of adding the 2 extra wheels.
Did your mentor really mean that they want 6 wheels with monster-truck steering? Even in that case, 4 wheels would work best.
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