I'm being pedantic, but that one motor is only taking all the weight if the truss is vertical underneath it.
@Dagger This would only be true if all of the other motors were slack and supporting no portion of the load.See my drawing please
If truss has #2 1T motors . Video wall 2150lbs
Each motor is carrying a load of 1075lbs.
My quesion when bump testing , 1 motor takes 100% of weight and motor will be overloaded.
I'm confused - your examples switch from a two motor system to a three motor system.
I do agree with bumping motors individually. But when the truss is being levlled and ending up with one motor taking all the weight?
Instance of leveing truss with a disto on the ground.
Truss is up in air , just tweaking for trim height and level: trussline with 6 motors . 1. Motor gets bumped up. - is this motor now not taking all the weight? While the rest 5 motors are slacking?
Hey Ron, thanks for the heads up. You'd have to go far beyond a bump test to put this "entire load on one motor" scenario into play, I think. The other questions this brings to mind is: if each motor is a 1 Ton, and the entire load did go to one hoist....why is this system designed to so easily go to a 1:1 design factor? I would definitely go for more motors. But I am also not sure I understand what the OP is laying out for us. Another reason we don't talk about how to rig stuff (too much) around here.@Dagger This would only be true if all of the other motors were slack and supporting no portion of the load.
@What Rigger? and @egilson1 Comments??
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Ron Hebbard
The training I received was "one hoist at a time". It's easier to hear the motor run in many cases (although the new hoists are much, much quieter than an old Lodestar....) and observe it is running in the correct direction, than visually observe 1 motor out of several.I have always seen bump test with 1 motors...until recently i hear someone saying to bump all the motors to see which one isn' t moving.
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