CIM Motor Backdrive - Chief Delphi

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13-03-2013, 04:45

MichaelBick MichaelBick is offline

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Re: CIM Motor Backdrive

Switching to a worm drive would help prevent backdriving. Also the motor controllers can be electronically set to brake. They won't be completely backdriveable but it might slow down the fall enough so that you are still hanging 5 seconds after the match ends.

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