Mecanum wheel size

[Mr. A]

[quote=The Megan 2207;901016]

Originally Posted by Mr. A

I doubt anyone used mecanum wheels at all for Lunacy. Those slippery plastic ones were required for all robots.

Duh, My bad..... ?:-P
8 years of this can turn your head to mush. I'll have to engage my brain before I post next time!

So this is the first year for testing the new model. Any preliminary results?

[yoshibrock]

We were looking on andy mark and found these monsters http://andymark.biz/am-0298.html
Too bad they weigh 14 pounds each and cost $710 a set.
Anyways, from what I've seen around here (vids and such) it looks like 8 in. mechs are not gonna have too much trouble getting over a bump, as long as you build up a decent amount of speed. As for mechanical integrity, we've used 8 inchers in the past without too much trouble, but after 3 years the plates are starting to deform. I think they should be fine for competition, but you might want to buy two sets. I have no experience with 6 in. mechs though, sorry.

[Not2B]

Well, we should know if the 6" can climb shortly. We have the 6" in house now, and we'll be building up the drive train this week. We know the 8" work, because we have some. If the 6" don't work, we can always swap in the 8" ones in relatively short order.