[Jon Stratis]

FWIW, we've done something similar in the past...

In 2008, we used a FP motor to lift the trackball on an elevator. Once at the top, we had to stall the motor in order to keep the elevator from drifting down. While it worked and we never blew that motor (after all, we only needed to stall it up there for a few seconds at a time), it did get very hot - hot enough we put a shroud around it to prevent people from getting burned by accidentally brushing it.

Contrast that with 2009, where we used a Banebots motor (I don't recall the exact one) to power a conveyor belt. In our second competition, we burned a few of them out from balls getting stuck and stalling the motor. Not one of our finest moments!