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Mechanical Automatic Transmission
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lugnet.technic
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Mon, 26 Nov 2001 04:28:50 GMT
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I made a three speed, fully mechanical, automatic transmission a few weeks
ago, and put a description of it on a web page. It uses a locking
differential to select the gears, and I've not seen that done in lego
before. If you are interested, the URL is:
http://ichabod.last-outpost.com/~malakai/lego/index.html
Thanks!
-jsj
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Message has 7 Replies:
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| (...) Couldn't have put it better myself! Except perhaps many thanks! That's really neat, Jeff! I think I've worked out how it all goes together - I'm gonna have to try it out on the weekend! And I'd be interested in details of your 9-speed gearbox (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| Dang that's awesome! I wish I coulda put one of them in this: (URL) that's shwweet. Excellent job, ha, I'm still trying to figure it out! Eric Sophie www.mylegomaster.com (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| Very Impressive! I have just been learning about real automatic transmissions in school, and they are based on planetary gear sets. Depending on which ring gear is locked, you get different ratios. I never would have thought of using differentials (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) asked, including the 'Is there an ldraw file somewhere' one. The answer to that question is, yes, there is now. See the page for details. Thanks, everyone, for your responses! -jsj (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| Amazing work, Im still trying to figure out exactly how it works. Can you add another top view picture from the other side of the car? (to see the gear train along the far side) Thanks, David (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
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