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Re: force required to spin vaccuum fan

in 2008 we used 2 FP motors to drive a shop vac blower to good success.

Here is another picture.

We were driving it at 1:1 and had to vary the speed of the motors because we were generating too much suck. I mean we couldn't get the ball off the manipulator at full speed.
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