Why chains and not braided steel cable?

This thread has a lot of good discussion about using cables vs. chains. The biggest challenge is the mechanism for measuring the amount of cable that is released or pulled per revolution of the motor. If stored on the motor spool the diameter of cable increases as the cable bundle grows, and for other ways to measure the length it takes some additional consideration. It’s doable and it sounds likely to be where the next generation maslow is heading but is still a work in progress.

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