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Unread 06-01-2014, 17:43
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Re: Winch?

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Originally Posted by Stark4Prez23 View Post
So you want to shift into neutral? Well last year, my team was going to do the same thing. We were going to use our drive motors to power our winch system. You mentioned ratchet. I remember us breaking the head off of a gear wrench to make it work. I would look into that. We modified AndyMark SuperShifters for this. We didn't actually use this feature on the bot, but it was part of design. It would be worth looking into. Good luck!
Yes shifting into neutral is exactly what I would like to do. Is that possible with a simple rearranging of gears inside the gear box or is it more complicated than that? I would like to be able to do it by simply shifting to neutral and not necessarily making a ratchet, for the sake of simplicity.