Bury your 3 motor module pictures/screenshots here 
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At exactly this time in 2018 I had finished designing this:
The shifting tank gearbox to end all shifting tank gearboxes. It was a different time…
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It was going to be so fun to build and test ;(
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Unless I’m missing something I think with those wheels, and the robot weight (even when the robot was complete) it would be traction limited with 4 motors.
We started 2019 with 6 neos but switched to 4 before our first event, wasn’t noticeable at all.
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We noticed it on practice robots…
by scent
6 motors seemed to hit equilibrium before the blue smoke zone
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Oh geez, when I get back to my desktop I have more than a few diffy swerves and gearboxes to drop on here…
(Most would probably never see the light of day anyway so all I ask is if you get significantly inspired by anyone’s posts you bookmark this thread so you can credit them if you find a way to make something worthwhile)
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fixed 
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I don’t miss the days people thought this many 775s was better than triple minincim.
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Well it was about 10 lb lighter!
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Iirc much closer to 5.5 lbs when accounting for motor weight and controller weight.
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Sure, even four motors will slip. But the two extra allowed us to gear for a more aggressive top speed without getting sluggish on the bottom. Our driver in 2022 felt it for sure.
The other big advantage is the motor happiness factor. We were attacking our 4-NEO setup at Electric City 2022 with fans, cold spray, anything to get them cooled off between rounds. Our 6-NEO setup at Championship (albeit with the aluminum Thrifty plates instead of the plastic TB Mini housing, which I agree had some impact too) barely got them above ambient, and it was a heavier robot hitting harder.
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Man this rule sucks it kills our new swerve design the v4 swerve module
ps: to see more angels check out our new tiktok at @primo4586
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