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Re: Mecanum or Swerve?

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Originally Posted by joek View Post
but, most tank drives use only 2 drive motors, whereas omni and mechanum ALWAYS use 4, so there is pore power being delivered, despite the 30% decrease, we have mechanum, and were able to push around tank drives like it was notheing
While I haven't seen any first omni robots using less than 4 wheels. There are omni-wheeled robots with 3 wheels. In the past we've considered using a 3 wheel setup.
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