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Originally Posted by Da Kid
does anyone know about a gear box with a wormdrive in it that uses a cim motor? our mentor was thinking about doing this because of the cim motors' strength.
in a related matter, what would the gear ratio need to be for a denso window motor to rotate a 10 lbs, 50 in. arm that extends to 62 in? we want it to not put too much strain so that the thermal breaker doesn't get tripped. we do have a spring on the arm so that makes it a little easier, but what would the gear ratio be without the spring, just to be safe?
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We're powering our arm through a combo of a fisher-price and RS-775 motors. The F-P is fed into a banebots P60 gearbox with a 20:1 reduction and the 775 through a P60 with a 16:1 reduction. The output of both motors are then fed into a torque summing gear that is also tied to a custom 30:1 worm gear setup. For us, this results in around 20 RPM at the output of the worm gear under a load.
If you're to just use one CIM motor to drive this setup, I'd expect a noticeable reduction in speed as you'll probably be driving the motor somewhat close to it's stall condition. Our arm is designed to still limp along even if one motor happens to die during a match. Don't be fooled by the size of the motor; the F-P motors have the highest power ratings of all the motors available to us.