I cant decide which to make since we don’t need to climb this year.
And the field is really open I think have the maneuvering of the x-drive would be beneficial to not have to turn and move over to the other goals
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6 motor tank, I used to be optimistic of holonomic drives but they ultimately are worse for VEX
- They do worse with defense
- They are hard to code to be field centric and robot centric is terrible to drive
- They take up too much space
- Even it you get around that the tanks will out perform normally
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Which is why my team is going with an H-drive to still be able to strafe, but ultimately a tank drive is just better
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I’m gonna run 2 inch mechanum wheels on 600 rpm.
It’s the same performance as a direct drive 4 inch wheel bendy drive in terms of speed and torque.
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Sorry
Benefits is that this drive would be 5x more compact
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Hi there I am pretty new to this and was wondering what is bendy drive, I am familiar with different drive types but have not heard of this one and also could you just give a bit more detail and the reasoning as I think that that is very interesting decision
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Sorry i meant X drive
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- 4 motor
- 6 motor
- x drive
- h drive
- mecanum drive
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i would recommend putting the motors on the inside.
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Great work! Just to nitpick a little bit a problem I notice is that your shaft collars are doubled up on the outside, for future reference you really only need 1 shaft collar per axle.
Also did 2 motors work well from your testing? It seems like it might be able to save weight to improve acceleration.
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Yes, the robot excelled at competition because of its light weight. Because of this, it could park very easily and it would be able to maneuver around very smoothly. The reason we are using 2 shaft collars is because after experience, the team figured out that if the collars were sandwiched, they wheels wouldn’t get out of balance.
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