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Re: JVN tabs question

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Originally Posted by Domtech View Post
The intake tab is for calculations for a conveyor sliding/rolling a game piece and the linear motion tab is for a winch moving a linear mechanism.

The linear tab uses load applied directly to the winch and the intake tab uses drag load of the game piece. It doubles the drag load number for the calculations. Maybe to account for the fact that a rolling game piece is moving half as fast as the conveyor? Maybe for safety factor? I'm not exactly sure.

OK I get what you are saying but it DOUBLES the current draw and I would think a rolling game piece would reduce the current draw.
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