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Re: Viability of Belt Driven Mecanums
We used 15 mm Gates belts on a mecanum drive with 6" Andymark wheels. We've had no issues with them after two regionals, numerous demonstrations, and two off-season events.
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Re: Viability of Belt Driven Mecanums
If you really want to help weight and simplicity, look into direct driving the mecanums with planetary gearboxes. If you want more info on it feel free to PM me or just ask here, we did that in 2014 and it was a very good way of doing it.
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Re: Viability of Belt Driven Mecanums
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If you really want to help weight and simplicity, look into direct driving the mecanums with planetary gearboxes. If you want more info on it feel free to PM me or just ask here, we did that in 2014 and it was a very good way of doing it.
Yes we also used AndyMark planetaries direct drive on our 8 inch Mecanums.
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