Progress

In the last roughly 9 months quite a lot has been accomplished. Here ar

e some pictures of that progress. This is the planetary gearbox. It reduces drum RPM to about 20% of the motor RPM and multiplies motor torque by a factor of 5. With a bare drum, this will allow the winch to deliver a rope tension just barely sufficient to break a black Tost weak-link (1000 daN)