Thread: paper: 2337's One Way Friction Brake
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Re: paper: 2337's One Way Friction Brake
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Originally Posted by Ninja_Bait View Post
Can you elaborate on the implementation? I don't really understand how the brake was used to limit the elevator's backdriving.
Seems like it's a neat way to get around disengaging the ratchet and paw.

The arms weight isn't enough to over come the friction brake on the ratchet and paw, but when you apply enough power from the motors, the brake it over powered and the arm drives down while the ratchet and paw are still engaged.

Or I'm totally wrong.
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