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Re: Mechanical Automatic Transmission
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lugnet.technic
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Fri, 30 Nov 2001 19:32:54 GMT
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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 for
this function... but they are actually planetary gear trains :) Thanks for the
info, you have really inspired me!
Rob
(btw, I also noticed the link to my humble CVT design... Thanks :)
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| (...) locked, (...) for (...) the (...) Hey, I built a knockoff of your CVT that did use the two dishes to increase the friction. It kind of helped, but it was still really lossy. I've got to say, that is a way cool design though! I knew it would (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-01, to lugnet.technic) !!
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