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Re: Best Drivetrain

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
Specifically, it requires a longer output shaft than any standard transmission will give you.

Usually it's just as much weight to do the bearing blocks for a direct drive setup as it is to do an AM hub with AM flat sprockets with extra chains. Since it's more difficult to do the former, most teams stick with the default method.
I know this year we direct drove the centered wheels of the AM supershifter3's
it DEFINITELY had its advantages when rogue robots would decide that our chains needed a tearin'
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