On 1 October 2013 02:46, Sven Wesley <[email protected]> wrote:

> It has a pneumatic cylinder that locks the carousel when a TC occours, but
> there's nothing that holds the arm itself.

I wonder why the arm isn't deployed pneumatically, it would seem easier.

> . I
> have an idea that the end switch tells the controller to go from moving to
> holding and the last centimetres are done with the energy of the arm itself.

What sort of motor are they? They look like induction motors, but that
seems unlikely given the job they are doing.

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