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Re: 32 Long Axles
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Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:16:05 GMT
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I tend to design assemblies with long shafts in a method that is analogous to
how high power electricity is transmited over long lines.

If you think about torque as amps and voltage as speed, it's just like that.
Shafts don't (generally) care about how fast you can spin them*, but there is a
limit on torque because you will get twist.  So for any system where I have a
long distance to travel with a shaft, I make sure I don't provide any speed
reduction from the drive motor until I reach the destination where the torque is
required.


The other cool analogy that falls out of this is the synchronization
of positioning or phase angle (for AC power systems).  If you have a
long shaft with a gear on each end, and you index one tooth on each
gear, the rotational position reletive to each other depends on the
ammount of twist in the shaft...which depends on the touque being
delivered.

In AC power systems, the phase angle of the AC wavefoem between a
generator and the load point depends on the inductance of the
powerline and the amount of current being pushed.

-Rob A>



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(...) Nooo...ooo!!!! Electrons!! voltage!! phase!! current!! It's all evil! MAKE IT STOP!!!! I'll stick with the torque/speed PHYSICAL definition thank you... at least those things you can see and touch to fully understand. The electrical stuff - (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) I tend to design assemblies with long shafts in a method that is analogous to how high power electricity is transmited over long lines. If you think about torque as amps and voltage as speed, it's just like that. Shafts don't (generally) care (...) (20 years ago, 10-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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