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Re: Max Number of Window Motors

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Originally Posted by somenerd View Post
Thank you very much
The idea of using window motors vs. Banebot/FP is that window motors lock. We used rather conservative numbers, so 4 window motors may be sufficient for our needs. However if anyone could suggest a more elegant solution, I am all ears.
My team built an adaper to attach two window motors through a CIMple box to power our lift arm. Picture an aluminium box with the motors on one side, the shaft and plastic hub from the KOP inside, and the CIMple box on the other. We had to have a custum shaft made for us to go from the motor's hup to a bearing, to the pinion gear of the CIMple box. It has plenty of torque; however, it moves pretty fast, so we got a 60 tooth sprocket to reduce the motors/gearbox boy about 4:1 to slow it down. So far it works good.