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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
Anyone want to take a stab designing an "electric cylinder" linear actuator product compatible with FIRST-legal motors and made with lightweight yet strong materials?
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Princess Auto is a popular auto parts and surplus store in Canada. They sell a Chinese brand of electric cylinder (complete with limit switches and potentiomenter feedback!). I picked one up at the beginning of the season, but we never modified it to use FRC legal motors because our design didn't end up needing one. One unanswered question was whether we could speed up the (really slow as stock) extension speed:
http://www.princessauto.com/pal/en/E...ator/8272551.p