13-01-2010, 21:57
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AKA: Pinecone
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
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Re: Swerve vs. Mech?
There's a billion threads on this before but I"ll add my personal inexperienced cents.
All drive trains are tradeoffs, and neither of these are exceptions. Mecanum drives do not respond well to defense, and can have high power draw. Swerve eliminates the defense problems at the expense of a heavier, tougher to build, less durable drivetrain and tricky programming. Given an infinitely good shop / mentors / resources / machining / programming, I'd pick swerve over mecanum always (but a 6 wheel drive is sometimes better than both), but that's obviously not the case.
If you've never built a swerve before this year, don't start now. It's too late.
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