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Re: Stepper Motors
It would also be useless. See, the limit on electrical solenoid actuators is 10W, 1" stroke, each. Therein lies the problem: converting that 1" stroke into a stepper motor isn't going to be easy... (For that matter, I've only ever seen 1 team that I know for sure used electrical solenoid actuators. 1. And I've been doing this for... well, let's not go into that.)
Meanwhile, the folks who used a servo or three are going to be done already and busy tracking. (And have probably rigged a window motor with PID to act as a really big servo...)
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