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Originally Posted by joshgilmour
We're a rookie team and are planning to use a winch for the purpose of pulling back our launching arm. We've little experience with all this, so we're having some issues trying to figure out how to make it so that when we finally want to fire, the winch can turn freely without being hindered by the motor that pulled the arm back. We plan on using a high torque motor that turns slowly, though I don't recall the name. It came with our kit.
I've read some posts about getting a gearbox to shift to neutral, among other such ideas, but have no idea if any of them would really work. Could anyone help me? If so, thank you so much!  |
If you cannot get a 2 speed winch to work as you want it to, consider other methods of releasing the catapult. You could have a winch to pull it back but something else (a lock) that holds the catapult back while you unwind the winch to the desired hard stop length. There are other ideas too, but that is just one.
-Keegan H