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Unread 27-01-2011, 21:21
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Re: winch

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Originally Posted by Garten Haeska View Post
okay we are using a forklift style arm, it gets set up by pnuematics, and we have this 10-15 pound manipulator that has wheels that just let it move up and down really nice, but my question is that if we use a winch, every time that we let it down to the bottom to pick up a tube, we want to be able to push a seperate button to go to a distinct peg ie: push button 10 and go to the top peg in about 4-5 sec. We are leaning towards the FP gearbox that came this year, we just dont know how to hook anything on it, we were going to attempt to use a window motor, and we couldnt find a way to keep power to it because we are lacking the plug to go in it.
You can't get plugs for them. They don't exist unless you wish to order a set of 1000 of them. What we did is we soldered on wires and filled it with epoxy to keep them from getting ripped out.

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