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Re: High torque that can be purchased.

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Originally Posted by AlDee View Post
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.
We did the same thing with only a 9:1 reduction and we used Jaguars. The arm worked fine because of the counter-balancing.