
09-02-2017, 12:29
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MST Rolla Senior
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Re: Passive vs Active Gearing
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Originally Posted by pmattin5459
Are there any advantages to an active mechanism for gear placing? The way I see it, it's a very small time gain for a lot of effort, but there may be other advantages.
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Originally Posted by MikLast
What are we considering the line between passive and active? I can see ours as a "semi-active" as it has small portions of it moving, but the manipulator itself doesn't move.
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Seems like an answer in the opening post of the thread.
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