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Re: Robot Lifting

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Originally Posted by fuzzy1718 View Post
so if you fall below the platform before 10 secs after the match it doesn't count. It hapened to a team a few times at cass tech.
We -- who I am proud to say have the highest number of 'hanging points' after two weeks of regionals -- put a very simple mechanical catch so that when we were lifted all the way, we wouldn't come back down. The screw drive doesn't backdrive all that fast, but it *does* backdrive, so we had to be sure...
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