pic: Drivetrain Prototype

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Mop Iii Top

Hold the phone here. Why are you using 4 CIMs? I can see using 4 CIMs for Mecanum wheel, besides you have to use 1 CIM per mecanum wheel. This years limit on CIM Motors was only 5. You are using up most of them and not leaving yourself more for other things. If you used only 2 CIM Motors, one for each side, you would give yourself 3 CIM Motors to play around with on the rest of the robot.

There are also another, less obvious benefit of having your CIMs in your drive. It will help keep your CG lower. 10lbs of CIM motors is a pretty decent amount of weight that you want to keep as low as possible.


Op, my only suggestion to you is to use the Toughboxes in the KOP. Not knocking the P80s at all but why spend money when you don't have to? Also, a word of caution, a wide stance bot like this will be susceptible to tipping if your CG is too high. In a game where you have to have a large arm lifting a heavy object (2008, 2005) I would be cautious about using a wide stance bot like this without outriggers (see 118 in 2005 or 33 in 2008 for a good example).