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Re: Discontinuous motion.
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 3 Apr 2002 02:40:21 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net!spamless!>
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Chris Daniel wrote:

    This exact same question was posted several months ago but I don't
remember the sollution that they came to.  This is my Idea:

    Ok you take two pulleys, pulley (A) is smaller then pulley (B).
You then conect the 2 pulleys via a linkage so that when you turn pulley (A)
pulley (B) continuosly changes directions.

    Now you take this two way motion and convert it back to one way and you
have your desired effect.

Thanks - but that's not what I'm after.  I want the input shaft to be rotating
continuously - and the output shaft to be stationary for some relatively
large amount of time - then suddenly rotate for a short time. This cycle
should be repeated.  What your mechanism does is to make the output shaft
rotate all the time - but switching directions periodically.

Imagine what you'd get if you meshed two 40t gears - then filed off (say)
36 of the teeth from the 'input' gear.  Then the input shaft could rotate
continuously - but the output shaft would only rotate for the 10% of the
revolution when the remaining teeth are meshed.

That's what I want - but I don't want to modify any Lego to do it.

The 'Geneva Escapement' is the right tool for the job - but building
one in unmodified Lego is going to be "interesting"!

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  Re: Discontinuous motion.
 
"Steve Baker" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3CAA6B95.CB1986...ail.net... (...) (A) (...) you (...) rotating (...) You can do this without modifying any gears. To approximate a gear with teeth missing, all you need to do is have (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Discontinuous motion.
 
Bill, This exact same question was posted several months ago but I don't remember the sollution that they came to. This is my Idea: Ok you take two pulleys, pulley (A) is smaller then pulley (B). You then conect the 2 pulleys via a linkage so that (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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