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Originally Posted by EricH

The seat motor? Nice throwback.

For all you younguns, there were seat motors in the KOP before my time (I haven't seen one come in the KOP since '03, but they were in it in '02). It's only recently been legal to use 'em again (ARA donation), and this one looks like a nice one.


Anybody looking for a hint, these things are really good for weight transfer if you need to do that. That's one of the last uses I've seen for 'em, lifting 180 lb each and making it look easy. (2002 mobile goal, in case anybody's wondering.)

Don't remember a Bosch seat motor back then. Of course there was the drill motors and I think a van door.

This motor stalls at around 1000lbs in the push direction which would give you a good ~ 400lbs of working force if you want to use it in a safe range and not push the limits too much. Of course the price you pay is pretty high in that it's fairly slow. Perfect for precision positioning and maintaining position. This type of motor is used in seat lift and tilt applications as well as steering wheel and foot pedal adjustment.

Adapting to the right mechanism will help make up some speed. The nice advantage of this over let's say piecing together your own is it's ready to go with a hall sensor built in.

Some other good FRC applications:
- Positioning a shooter
- lifting a heavy weight and keeping it there when power is cut