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Re: Winch
We have a winch built using the Tiagene Motor. We tested it out and our robot hangs almost completely level. It works WONDERFULLY. It has about a 500 lifting capacity, but CAUTION to other teams using this motor as a winch: Despite the fact that the motor utilizes a worm gear and lead screw and cannot be technically backdriven the drive shaft can and does slip inside of the worm gear. The shaft is not keyed and does slip causing the motor to backdrive. We are not using cable as most other team have discussed since it has to be stacked by a special sliding guide. Instead we are using winch strap which work better than cable. It has a 27,000LB. breaking load and stacks itself.
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