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Originally Posted by Gdeaver

This design effort seams to be focused on mechanical losses experienced in the 2014 swerve module. What specific problems did you have? Have you identified where the losses on the current module are? Have you quantified the total losses? I see some potential problem areas in the current Module. Before I say more, what have you found so far? Know what the 1st iteration problems are before you design the 2nd iteration.

it was designed to be smaller, lighter but stilll be made cheaply (-ish), the lower number of transfers is a result of deciding to remove the chain and first axle of a traditional swerve,(because steel chain is heavy)
im no expert on mechanical efficiency (that's Tyler's job) but the system should be more efficient if we took out an axle and a chain (once again i could be wrong, im not too good with theoretical mechanical efficiency, if it stalls we just throw another moter on it and/or lower the ratio)