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Re: Dropping Ramp Issues

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Originally Posted by Bill_Hancoc View Post
If you had a spring could you maybe put it somesort of mechanical lock on the ramp so that i cannon deploy until you disengage it. Maybe power it with a servo or something small. This way if you are concerned that it will deply accidentally there is always a good mechanical lock preventing it then you can still keep you current piston mount.
Thirded. Use springs that are strong enough to knock your ramp over and change the function of your piston to disengage a latch. We're doing something similar, though we're using our ramp lifting motors to disengage the retaining system. The retaining system is still to be defined, but at worst we'll be using highly calibrated fishing line to tie the ramps together and just break it with our ramp motors.
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