Mecanum vs. Swerve Drive

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Mecanum vs. Swerve Drive

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23-05-2013, 14:16

bbradf44

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Originally Posted by jbsmithtx

Prepare for the worst.

Nearly everyone on CD will tell you that mecanum wheels are completely awful, and have no pushing power.

I have to disagree with you there. This past season my team used mecanum for the first time. Yes they are very costly but it all panned out in competition. And as far as pushing power, we pushed a robot twice our size and just at Max weight across the field on several occasions

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