Very impressive drive system. Now that you have one iteration done and currently testing, you can continue to develop and make improvements to put yourselves further ahead than a large majority of teams for the 2014 season (assuming that a swerve drivetrain is beneficial next year...) Abuse it until you find what breaks!
I am curious about the Black and Decker gearboxes you used. Do you have more details on what model you purchased and what modifications you needed to make? I'm a fan of cheap off the shelf components like this.
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Originally Posted by yash101
I'm not trying to grief here, but 28 pounds for the drivetrain sounds horrendous! I do not know how much our mecanum drivetrain weighed, but I know that it is well under 28 pounds!
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I don't believe that I've ever helped construct a FIRST robot with a drivetrain that weighed less than 35 pounds. I would argue that reducing the weight of the upper structure of the robot is much more important. If you have a 28 pound drivetrain and 92 pounds worth of other mechanisms/components, then the drivetrain is
not the part that needs to be redesigned.