Thread: pic: Fixing the Winch on the field
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Unread 07-03-2004, 19:45
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Re: pic: Fixing the Winch on the field
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Originally Posted by Aaron Lussier
What happened at BAE was:

After the bar had been lowered to get the robots off of the bar, then because there was no weight on the bar as it was going back up, the winch cable loosened up and wrapped around the axle on the winch drum, casueing everything to lock up.

They had to lift off the platform in order to reach the winch drum, from then on we used hooks and hung on the bar from both sides on the way up and the way down so there was always even pressure on the bar.

-Aaron
Yes that was basically how it happened.
However it happened twice.
I don't know why it came off the second time, but that was the match where there was 4 robots on the bar, so maybe it caused it to be uneven or something. The second time Dean Kamen himself fixed it.
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