pic: The BoltBots Team 5040 Robot week 3 in the build !

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Originally Posted by earlybird

If you are still testing winch motors my team has had much success with a CIM motor attached to a gearbox from a Dewalt drill. There is a whitepaper out there somewhere on it. I believe Dr. Joseph Johnson(one of our old mentors) made it but I'm not entirely sure. We used this set up during breakaway to lift our entire robot off the ground with no trouble at all.

Thanks for the information I will show this paper to the build team . Looks like a option they did not think of ,and best of all I think I have one of these some where in the shop that the motor is burned up in . So it would meet the teams goal of recycled material.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1592