If useful to others, I gave ascending a try and didn’t see much improvement, if any, over the Grigri. The wheel stays locked, not spinning, for pretty much the whole motion.
That's what I would expect as well. The wheel is only designed to spin when there is very little rope tension, and in a hauling / ascending system there is tension on both strands coming up out of the Neox, which pulls the wheel up into the locked position. Hard is easy found that the friction measured very similar through a locked Neox wheel and a GriGri cam.
If useful to others, I gave ascending a try and didn’t see much improvement, if any, over the Grigri. The wheel stays locked, not spinning, for pretty much the whole motion.
That's what I would expect as well. The wheel is only designed to spin when there is very little rope tension, and in a hauling / ascending system there is tension on both strands coming up out of the Neox, which pulls the wheel up into the locked position. Hard is easy found that the friction measured very similar through a locked Neox wheel and a GriGri cam.