Re: Dec Drive, etc.

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

This is a good practical suggestion - i.e. one that I can imagine 
implementing on the present design.  One just needs to wrap a constant 
force spring around the brake wheel.  I will look to see if I can find a 
place to do this.

Tom Droege

At 01:24 PM 9/21/00 -0700, you wrote:
>could the dec mechanism be preloaded by a light shock cord to remove the
>slop?  of course theis definitely would require energizing the motor before
>the brake is released, but that mod is scheduled anyway.  if the slop is
>taken up by preload, then the encoder as Chris suggests (and Arne desires)
>would be feasable.
>
>-ron
>
>On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 aah@nofs.navy.mil wrote: