I saw another thread about the difference between stacking motors and a normal 6-motor drive. They didn’t fully answer the question I was wondering because the common theme they brought up was how the weight was more and how it saved room. I couldn’t find as much as I hoped on the web either.
Are there any other benefits to having stacked motors? I was specifically wondering if there are any benefits in how it drives. Is it stronger or faster? Someone mentioned less friction.
Stacked motors allows some flexibility when determining your center of gravity. It als allows greater flexibility with space (taking up a longer space versus a cube-like space, more compact)
As for driving, if you look at the catalogue of drivetrain gearings, you will notice how stacking the motors prevents your drivetrain from being so spread out horizontally.
Or you can just attack the motor to the wheel itself. If the gear ration allows you to do it.
(Sorry guys but I like poking fun when people forget to use spell check)
But back to the topic, most gear ratios involve a motor being attached to a gear, and even direct drive ratios involve stacked motors.
Also if you stack a gear, I personally believe that it is easier to make a pot system.
I kinda wanna make a pto to a 77 watt slapper for skills. Then have a kickstand that lifts the drive up while you are shooting
I get the sense that you are very enthusiastic about this idea. Why though? Many teams have successful slappers that only use 11W.
Strive for design simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.
It would be just for fun and prolly wont see comp. We didn’t qual to worlds
High motor pto can be very useful though. A sister team uses 6 motor pto from drivetrain for their big hang. ( the g tier “pronounce this” hang.) it’s very effective because they can do a two motor intake with high rpm that they hot swap for a kicker in skills.
My team is considering a design similar to this. Would it be bad to allow the drivetrain to still drive while the PTO is enabled? I’m guessing that wouldn’t work, but that would be much easier.
As long as you drive into the bar it shouldn’t matter if you can still drive, It might even be better.
Cong on your worlds qual at state. Yeah i’d do the drive to and do a 7 motor 360-400 RPM drive
if you mean similar to 2654p or inception hang, then yeah thats fine, just holecount inception hang on a descore bot and youre getting to dome lol
dont do a 77w slapper though. 
if you’re going to worlds with that youll be going back after alliance selection
We didn’t qual to worlds. If we did we prolly would have built an inception hang
Yeah I meant the hang mech, not the slapper.
