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Re: Mecanum Direct drive

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Originally Posted by fhsroboticsteam View Post
So you think that 12:1 would be to low of a ratio (causing the wheels to spin too fast) on 6" wheels?
A standard AM Toughbox at 12.75:1 with a 6" mecanum wheel should give you around 7-8 ft/s.*

*With 8" wheels on the same gearbox, we were measuring 10ft/s consistently. Hopefully there isn't some funky issue with mecanums that would put my 6" wheel estimate off by any significant amount.