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[Boe]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Wait, so you were steering omnis? WHY?

More shocking, you burned out steering motors while steering omnis? HOW?

I'm hoping this is a gigantic troll because the level of WTH is way too high.

I believe what happened was they ran traction wheels with their swerve at the MN state tournament and blew out the turning motors there, and then locked the modules in place and ran it as a 4 wheel tank. Then some time later they switched the traction wheels to omnis.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Boe

I believe what happened was they ran traction wheels with their swerve at the MN state tournament and blew out the turning motors there, and then locked the modules in place and ran it as a 4 wheel tank. Then some time later they switched the traction wheels to omnis.

Ok, this makes significantly more sense.

[AKSoapy29]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Ok, this makes significantly more sense.

At the start of the season, all of the wheels were 6" KOP wheels, each one individually powered. We couldn't really get the code right, so for state, we added steering linkages, meaning the front pair of wheels were locked together, and the back pair of wheels were locked together. Essentially it had a car steering setup on both the front and back. Well after/during our second match at state, we think the bar flipped around to the opposite side of the wheel, and the encoder detected that, and tried to correct itself, hence burning out all of our motors. The day before state, we changed out the wheels on the shadow bot modules for tank, so we quickly reprogrammed the robot and changed out the modules, took out the turning motors, and locked the wheels in place. Tank has so far worked the best Just for fun, we made all of the wheels omni's, still having them locked in place.