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Re: pic: Shaker 2011 Arm Gearbox (Maybe?)

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Originally Posted by JamesCH95 View Post
I like it. Can the gears handle the amount of torque the FP may be capable of providing?
No idea if the lightened gears can, but I would be very surprised if the .4 inch steel gears from AndyMark could not handle the load the FP puts on them, considering people lifted robot-size loads with those gears last year.

To be safe I'd personally forego lightening the final gear even though it's the biggest one.

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Originally Posted by IndySam View Post
Nice work Chris.

What about back driving?
Hopefully the arm can be balanced with surgical tubing in all states but it's "reverse dunk slamma jamma mode". For the rest of it, the arm is a surprisingly light load on the motor and running it at ~5% power or so to hold it up should be very easy, especially with balancing reducing the already light load further.
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