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Unread 12-04-2011, 12:53
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Re: High torque that can be purchased.

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Originally Posted by Billfred View Post
We used two window motors ganged together by a shaft with a (I -think-) 10:60 chain reduction. Combined with some surgical tubing counterbalancing, we've never been wanting for torque or speed on our arm ).
We did essentially the same. I read that some teams were having difficulty with Jaguars putting out unequal outputs and damaging the motors. We didn't have that problem. Perhaps because we used Victors. The only difficulty we had was adding enough counterbalance to prevent gravity from slamming the arm down.