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Re: micro motor jam
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Tue, 18 Apr 2000 05:57:55 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Henry Chea writes:
> Yeah, I think they should be called planetary gears too, but I am just
> about as sure as you are...
Nope, I'm wrong. Turns out a planetary gear arrangement is a sort of coaxial
non-reversing gear reduction thingy good for high torque applications and
resistant to skipping... um, well there's a diagram of one at
http://www.howstuffworks.com/gears.htm near the bottom of the page.
I still don't know what the gears in the red motors are called...
Phil
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| (...) Yeah, I think they should be called planetary gears too, but I am just about as sure as you are... The gears are supposed to move in a certain fashion, but their fit is so loose that it is easy for the teeth of the gears to step on top of each (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.technic)
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