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Unread 22-02-2011, 08:40
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Re: Descending robot arm

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Originally Posted by Robby Unruh View Post
Our arm is incredibly similar to that, our second joint is pneumatic so it's only got two ranges of movement. So how do you think we'll do using surgicial tubing as our counter weight? I don't think we have time to get/order springs to use before shipment.

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is enabling Break Mode on the victors safe? I've never heard/seen anything about that.
We put the victors on, and before we had it in break mode the arm liked to just keep going down for no reason at all (made no sense to me, as they can't backdrive, right?). Whatever the problem was, break mode fixed it.

I posted a topic on here and asked about it when we had our problem, and everyone suggested surgical tubing, so I think you'll be fine with it.
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