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Re: Curious thick white gear with the slipping hub
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Date: 
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:23:08 GMT
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> > Anyone know what this odd part is good for? One came with my RIS 1.5 system.
> > The hub slips both ways, so it isn't a one-way clutch, and it seems to slip • at
> > low torques, so it apparently isn't a mechanical fuse.
> 
> It is designed to protect the motors from stalling.  It should act like a
> normal gear at low torque, and the inner portion should spin at high
> torques.  The maximum torque is listed on the gear.
> 
> alex

Odd that they only included one of 'em, then, and didn't include it in the
instructions in the Constructopedia.

Oh, well.

Dave



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  Re: Curious thick white gear with the slipping hub
 
I found it used on page 59 of the constructopedia (v1.5) as part of the Inventorbot as part of the hat mechanism. -Phil (...) (27 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) It is designed to protect the motors from stalling. It should act like a normal gear at low torque, and the inner portion should spin at high torques. The maximum torque is listed on the gear. alex (27 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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