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Re: Scaling Winch Motor Help

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Originally Posted by MaGiC_PiKaChU View Post
I see you plan on making a similar system to ours.

we had a single 775 from vex at first. i believe geared down 75:1
we doubled that at GTCR, now 2 775s, same ratio.
When you scale with this system, does it fall back down after the robot is disabled? Also, how heavy is your robot? We have a 60lb robot (excluding our potential scaling system) and I was curious how many motors we should use.