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Re: Best Lift Design for Logomotion?

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Originally Posted by Jstack14 View Post
I find it interesting that it has to be slowed down to be controlled. I guess it depends on the lift type, but suprisingly our lift is rather controlable at its high speed. Could just be the style of lift but maybe look into practiceing some with the arm moving faster (if its slowed through programing). After a little bit you may get the hang of it and have the speed as an advantage!
We didn't have to slow it down to make it controllable. It was very well under control. The problem was the acceleration creates so much force (F = m*a) that some stuff was starting to bend a bit too much and we were worried about the life span if we kept it under that much load all of the time.
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