[Libby K]

Originally Posted by SJaladi

We're using BAG motors with a 100:1 VersaPlanetary gearbox running 4" colsons. While it intakes totes a little slower than some of the other designs out there we found that the higher ratio gives us enough torque to allow for some misalignment on the totes and still reliably intake them.

I swear to you, Sarath, I came here to post this, read your post and was about to send it to you, like 'Hey! Someone else did it our way too!" ...Whoops.

Something we did notice during driver's practice is that with our wheels running, simply touching a tote from with the outside of the intake (read: we're not at -all- lined up to grab that tote, off by a huge angle) breaks up the cluster of the Landfill pretty quickly and gets the tote lined up for us to better close in on it. So, while our actual tote intake is a bit slower, we can get individual totes lined up for capture with very little effort.