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Re: How many seconds to climb the rope?

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Originally Posted by qscgy View Post
The mean of the poll responses seems to be 3-6 seconds. Now I feel bad about our 8 second climb. Of course, from what I've seen, most climbers have CIMs. We are using a single Mini CIM with a 50:1 VersaPlanetary, although we have space to put 2 in a 2-CIM VersaPlanetary mounting if those few seconds look like they will make a significant difference.
There are many factors that go into climber design, including how much space and power you can allocate it. If it goes up every match in 8 seconds, I'm sure you'll find a valuable home on an alliance.

If climb time is still a concern, then you may be able to replace the MiniCIM with a 775Pro through a VP CIM-ile and adjust your gearing slightly.

Yet in our testing, it is time to line up and time for the rope to catch that actually takes the longest. From liftoff to touchpad ours is under 2 seconds. Yet from rope touch to rope engagement it's about another 2 seconds. There are still a couple of things we can do to minimize it further, but our target is under 4 seconds (place gear at 5 seconds remaining).
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