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Re: Climb Stopping Mechanism

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Originally Posted by waialua359 View Post
Sorry, I'm slow. I dont quite follow?
When you hit the wall on top, your motor will go to stall (unless you're current limiting) and push very hard on the top.

Now imagine everything in the system is a spring, you're going to compress/stretch parts of the robot/field and load everything up.

Now there is a ratchet on there preventing you from backdriving (and you can't go forward any more as you're already loaded pretty firm into the field).

Now that's how you lock yourself onto the field.
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