2017 Drive Train

[Bkeeneykid]

I'm not sure how a h-drive is simpler to build. With mecanums, you simply just mount wheels on each corner. The stock AM14U3 chassis even has support for it with Toughbox Micros. Meanwhile, with a h-drive you have to add a cross member and have a whole different drive wheel and gearbox in the middle. With H-drive you can have three gearboxes (you can tie the two side wheels together), but you need at least 5 motors. Mecanum has four gearboxes but four motors needed. Both offer challenges, but a mecanum drive is a lot simpler to mount to some versa chassis quickly (or c-channel as my team uses) and get started.