Ratchet Switch under load

[Monochron]

Originally Posted by Jibri Wright

I think you are still misunderstanding. If you have the ratchet on the axel directly driven by the CIMs, there's no need to switch the ratchet's clutch. When the dog gear disengages, the output shaft will spin freely regardless of the ratchet or not. This is because the output shaft is driven directly from the shaft with the dog gear, not the shaft driven directly by the CIMs.

No I understand. If you see, I said that we were trying to do this assembly WITHOUT a shifting gearbox. It is kind of hard to get your head around, but we were planning on actually rotating our ratchet with our motor shaft. The ratchet would rotate the winch shaft and then to release we only had to switch the ratchet's clutch to reverse. When firing the ratchet and motor would stay stationary while the winch axel would spin inside the ratchet.

It is incredibly simply. The only problem is finding a ratchet that can switch under load.