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Originally Posted by squirrel
It does backdrive, it takes some current to the motor to keep it wound up. We're still working on the control system for the motor. Plan is to keep the kicker pulled back enough to allow us to possess a ball, and then winch it back to whatever distance we need for a kick right before making the kick. On the plus side, it will not remain "cocked" when the robot is disabled.
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True, we ended up using a FP motor on ours so we didn't want to keep it running a ton. (FIRST frowns upon smoke machines at regionals). From a safety perspective I agree that having it slowly wind back would be nice but we also had the problem of pulling our dog out was a lot harder if it could back drive. Now it is a two step system but it is easier to fire.