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Originally Posted by John Retkowski
It may not be applicable or the best solution to your problem this late in the season, but our team used a different motor/gearbox for our winch. We took the planetary gear box out of a drill and hooked it to a banebot 775 motor. This allows us easy lifting with no back driving or stalling.
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Time isn't really an issue for us, as we are now refining our robot for our next event, which is an off season event in June. Unfortunately here in Australia we aren't as spoilt for choice with regionals as in the US!!
It seems that having a worm or planetary gearbox is the best option to stop the motors heating up at the moment. I have one question though - will they perform ok with a few kilos of weight on them?
Bomb squad, that grabber was the coolest way to grab a tetrahedral object in the history of grabbing tetrahedral objects. - IronVulture [more] 
16-03-2015, 22:14
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