pic: Swerve^2 Prototype

[WizardOfAz]

Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

I am going to have to back up Travis on this one. We used the globe motors for swerve steering in 2002 and we hade to add a bearing to support the load. We ruined 3 globe motors on our prototype unitl we figured it out. Once we added the bearing, we did not fail any globe motors.
-Paul

OK, I hear the growing concensus. Our original design had a top plate and a bearing. Just "simplified" it to a single plate to the the prototype going quick, and it worked pretty well, so I was hoping to leave it that way. The prototype in the photo will be getting some road time in the next few days, so we'll see how that goes. What are the first symptoms of impending failure? Noise? Smoke? Just locks up?