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Re: Internals
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:07:33 GMT
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Juergen Stuber <juergen@jstuber.!SayNoToSpam!net>
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Hi Geoffrey,
"Geoffrey Hyde" <g.hyde@bigpond.net.au> writes:
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> If you look at picture one then picture two, you will notice in the second
> picture that all but the very last of the four gears actually has a second
> gear cast onto it, making the three of them essentially two gears and not
> one. What this essentially does is introduce a simple reduction drive
> mechanism, also known in a lot of applications as a speed reduction gearbox,
> into each gear, as it turns the next gear in line a bit slower.
I know that, but the gears that I mean don't take part in the reduction,
the reduction is essentially done only by the axis next to the motor.
> I don't think you can turn these around, it would do little, and possibly
> burn out the drive motor from excessive friction generation. Reduction
> mechanisms are generally not intended to overdrive the gears they mesh with.
I was only wondering why they would put two gears on an axis when
the second one was not used, but maybe they just reused existing parts.
Jürgen
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