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necessary torque for an arm
We've calculated that there are 51 ft-lbs of torque resisting our arm's movement. To move the arm we were thinking of running two RS-550's at peak efficiency. They would be run through a CIM-U-LATOR (2.7:1) and then a p80 (256:1) this gives us 63 ft-lbs of torque as an output.

The question is, do we then do an additional reduction to increase the torque?

The current reductions have us running at 25 RPM and we would like to stay above 15 RPM.
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