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Originally Posted by thefro526
When I came up with an arm design for my team I used the Tiange van door motor running through a 2:1 reduction and it should have has more than enough power. One of the issues with the van door motor is that it has a worm gear which means that you can't put the arm down by hand it needs to be forced down. But also that is an avantage if you wanted to used a closed loop system because then your motor does not have to stall to lock in place. Good Luck
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yes he's right the van door can't be back driven this can be good and bad to make the motor more easier to back drive loosen the (2) set screws on the shaft that the worm gear is on, note you do not have to deassembled the gear box there on the outside