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Thanks tygerdawg. That was a really helpful reply. Would using a wormgear in the drive mean I can get away without using a brake? Or is redundancy in braking a must? I'll get in touch with our local SEW Euro guys and see what they say.

Would this question be better off in a different forum section? Electrical eng maybe? I wasn't sure so just posted in Mech Eng.

Hello. As many others here, I am starting a project that involves some engineering and will at some point, if I go ahead with it, require an engineer to design and certify. But for now I'd like to understand the principals involved and dust off some of my 1st year physics and see how much of it...