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Originally Posted by Charding18
So basically it would be unwise to use the 100:1 versa gearbox to use as a winch to climb? Is it not strong enough to lift the robot or does it just have a lot of slippage?
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It's the slippage. Remember that the robot does have to stay up at the end of the match for the Scale points.
Whether it's strong enough or not depends a lot on what motor you've got going into it and what you do with the output as far as gearing/winching.
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