Thread: CIM Motor Backdrive
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Unread 13-03-2013, 03:28
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CIM Motor Backdrive
Hey Everyone,

I was wondering if there was anyway to prevent backdrive from a CIM Motor. We currently are using a CIM Motor to turn two spools on our robot which has rope attacked to it and it allows us to move our arm up and down, but the probably is when hanging, we have a 50% chance of staying on the bar without haivng the CIM motor back driving. We do have another hook system installed, but we ended up using an illegal motor so that did not really work out for us at CVR. It would also be much easier to take the robot off the pyramid without the hooks too. Is there anyway we can prevent the CIM Motor from having backdrive? Our robot weighs around 100 pounds.

Thanks