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Re: Motor for arm: what should be used when?

We're running our arm on one Banebots 550 and one Fisher Price. We were going to use the Andy Mark Double Doozy but it wasn't available, so we designed and built our own custom gearbox. The internal reduction is 237:1 plus another approximately 3:1 reduction from the sprockets.

So far the motors have been getting warm but not hot under match level or higher stress environments. We did have to do a lot of work in software to keep the arm from sinking but even that doesn't seem to be putting too much strain on them.
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