Thread: Motor for arm: what should be used when?
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Re: Motor for arm: what should be used when?
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Originally Posted by clayman View Post
We ran into the exact same problems with the window motors at the base our arm. Since we took out the locking pins and the motors were backdriving anyway, we swapped them out with a single cim on a toughbox. We have yet to test it, though (but we don't expect any issues). The other two joints on our arm are driven by single, unmodified window motors.
Please tell us how this works. We built our arm with the CIM and toughbox and were having problems getting it past about parallel with ground. May have been our batteries though. Please let us know what happens.

David
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