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Re: Climb Stopping Mechanism

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Originally Posted by Poseidon5817 View Post
It is legal to remove the rope from the field without removing the robot from the rope. So couldn't you have two team members support the robot, while another team member releases the rope from the davit?
No. Read the above. You have nowhere to support the robot to. You can't force it up because it's already pushed the touch pad to it's hard stop. The rope will be under hundreds of pounds of tension at that point. You cannot push the robot higher and therefore cannot relieve the tension.
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