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Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 4 Apr 2001 05:17:30 GMT
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Steve Baker wrote:

I find they are almost always WAY too stiff for the
applications I have - by the time they've started to slip, the motor
has usually stalled - or ripped the robot to bits.


Hmm interesting. I only have one clutch gear (the one that came with RIS
1.5), and it is too *loose* to really be at all functional. I've also
read that the clutch force tends to drop in them the more they are used.

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Regards

Micah J. Mabelitini - LUGNET #918
The University of Kentucky
SECC Middlesboro Academic Skills Resource Center
accutron@kih.net - http://www.users.kih.net/~micahx/



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  Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
 
Yes they do lose a little, I guess we always knew that would be the case, I hate to see you not use the gear if it's to loose, reurn it for a new one if you decide somthing really needs it. Also I consider this gear a "back-up" in preventing (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
 
(...) (I think we established that this is Newton centimeters - a force of between two and a half and five Newtons applied at a distance of one centimeter will cause the gear to slip...or half that at 2cm, a third at 3cm and so on). (...) That's (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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