Swerve Drive Concept

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Originally Posted by CENTURION

The top orange plate on the module seems overly complicated, from a machining standpoint.

Instead of having those little flanges hanging down, why not just bolt downwards through the orange plate into the two side plates?

You're right, to make the orange plate would waste a lot of material, so I think the little tabs could be replaced with a steel bracket, and then I could put a could more bolts straight down through the orange plate and into the blue side plate, like you described.

To keep the chains tight, we plan on putting spacers underneath one side of the lower gearbox plate until the chain is tight. We've done this in the past, and we only had to adjust the shims twice during the season to keep up with the stretching chain. The chain for the swerve module has a calculated center to center distance, and its small enough that it doesn't need tensioning.