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Re: How to Power a Rotating Turret

Sounds like a neat way to make it! We thought about using a different motor/transmission, but decided we wanted the turret to move 180 degrees in about a second, so we used a Banebots RS-545 motor with a 64:1 planetary transmission, and we have a belt pulley ratio of about 8:1