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Originally Posted by crazyStone
In theory if you create small diameter shafts as rollers, you could, (not saying we have, because we didn't) gear the textrix motors up to 14,000 or 20,000 rpms, and given that the shaft size isn't so large that it burns out the motors you could theorticallly be looking at a .5-.7 second ascent. Now if only I had thought about it a few weeks ago, but oh well we shall be satisifed with our 1.4 second deploy and climb good luck to you all at st. louis.
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Take a look at the wattage (joules per second) of your motors, and at the required energy (joules) to climb the tower (Mass x Distance x Force of Gravity) and the theoretical best climb time is somewhere in the range of 1 - 1.5 seconds, smaller shafts help to a point, but then you begin to go slower due to less power. Theres a couple of threads that explain it better than myself if you take a look.
If only a .5 second climb time were possible
