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Re: chassis ideas swerve

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye610 View Post
I would not suggest using banebots on your steering. They have a tendency to short circuit and cause your robot to time out in matches for about 30 seconds. Putting them in the drivetrain would just worsen this problem because they would be exposed to a lot of debris, which is the cause of this problem. it's really easy to fix the shorts on the banebots, but they would be difficult to access in your drive system and you would have to fix the short every match because of the level of dirt and debris they would be exposed to.
Not necessarily true. When you say banebots, what you do mean?

The gearboxes? The motors? The entire package?

The 2 main issues with banebots is:

-The gearbox blowing itself apart on high reductions (ex: 256:1)
-The 775 case shorting (not the 550/540/395)

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