[FTC]: Mecanum wheels or omni wheels?

[pyroslev]

Originally Posted by Ether

What reasoning (or experience) convinces you that mecanum wheels act as Van de Graaff generators?

A school with multiple teams all use the same core design for the robots over the years. The chassis was same with a few differences in manipulators and their wheel choice. I've noticed the team with 'standard' doubled up omni wheels discharged with greater frequency compared to their Mecanum counterpart. (Notice being a relative term for "That one shocked me more") No voltage data or hard count of how many times it happened but it happened enough I was wary of touching the Omni Wheeled Robot more than the Mecanum.

For that reason I'm thankful the use of Anti-Static sprays is allowed this year.