To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.roboticsOpen lugnet.robotics in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Robotics / 8700
8699  |  8701
Subject: 
Re: Curious thick white gear with the slipping hub
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:23:08 GMT
Viewed: 
618 times
  
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



Message has 1 Reply:
  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 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Curious thick white gear with the slipping hub
 
(...) 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 (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

5 Messages in This Thread:

Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR