Recently our team has been discovering issues with both different types of omni wheels, and we were wondering what the forum’s opinions are on which type of omni wheel should be used. poll I find that with Grey Omni wheels, they have minimal slack since they use high strength shaft inserts, however…

To deal with slack, if you have a gear or sprocket on the same shaft (not actually sure on sprocket) you can screw standoffs into the gear that go through the wheel to ‘lock’ it into the gear. I’ve found that this greatly reduces slack, hope this helps!

[image] Professoralex14: I find that with Grey Omni wheels, they have minimal slack since they use high strength shaft inserts Our green omni’s have these as well. Maybe you are using the old version, which had non removable plastic centers. If that’s what you have, then yeah, those stripped …

yeah our green omnis are old, I’ll definitely look into getting new ones before worlds because that slack will be pretty detrimental for auton skills

It’s probably best to just get the new antistatic ones since they’re going to be required next year

[image] Cardboard_Box_Man: It’s probably best to just get the new antistatic ones since they’re going to be required next year Unless you have some secret inside information I am unaware of, this is not true. While the wheels have been discontinued pl they are still on the website and in the …

My bad, I mis-remembered how it had been phrased [image] New Products - February 2022 Because I know the question will be asked, we are transitioning ALL of our other Traction and Omni-Directional wheels to Anti-Static versions. However, we are not sure at this time when each wheel will be trans…

[image] Professoralex14: yeah our green omnis are old, I’ll definitely look into getting new ones before worlds because that slack will be pretty detrimental for auton skills You can likely pass standoffs through the old omni-wheels, and screw the gears onto them to pass motion to the wheel d…

Grey vs Green Omni Wheels

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Cardboard_Box_Man March 24, 2022, 10:23pm 7

My bad, I mis-remembered how it had been phrased