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Re: Versa gear box

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Originally Posted by Charding18 View Post
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?
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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