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Unread 03-02-2008, 13:29
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Question Re: 816's Robot as of 2/2/08

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
A respectful suggestion since you still have 2-ish weeks left. That's a really really long lift time, and the van door motors are rather low power. Why don't you look into using an extra CIM motor through a dewalt transmission as detailed in the Nothing but Dewalts whitepaper. If you need the hard to backdrive properties of the van door, you can always leave the anti-backdrive pins in the edwalt transmission. With proper gearing you could probably get your lift time down to 3-4 seconds.
Is 4 the limit of CIM motors you can use? If we already use 4 what other motor besides the Van Door would work, if any?
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