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Unread 11-01-2010, 23:58
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Re: Lifting mecanisms

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Originally Posted by Formerly Famous View Post
You are going to need a lot of power to lift even 70 pounds up there. The process will be slow, you may have a hard time doing that within 20 seconds.

Personally, I have none at the moment. I have gone from pneumatics, to scissor lifts. I'm still considering the best way.

-Rion
You would be surprised at how fast some robots made it up. I remember team 501 had such a swift movement for getting up.

And to echo what Eric said, make sure youe hooks are secure on your robot. A lot of teams lost their hooks before they made it to the bar from collisions.
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