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Re: Video of Cable Shovel In Action
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lugnet.technic
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Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:46:39 GMT
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On 30/09/05, Benjamin Ventura <generaldisarray2005@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.technic, danny staple <orionrobots@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Works fine for me here too. It is impressive, but it is also one of
> > the noisiest things I have seen in a while. One or two of those motors
> > sound like they are a little stretched.
> >
> > Maybe it is encoded with a newer codec?
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> > http://orionrobots.co.uk - Build Robots
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> Most of the noise is coming from the 'crowd', the part that pushes the bucket
> back and forth. It uses a bunch of 40, 24 and 8 tooth gears to do it's thing:
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> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1401966>
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> And they make a ton of noise, the gears. The motors there do not have
> built-in
> gear reduction, so i had to build my own transmission.
Cool. Could you get less noise and a reduction in space using a worm
gear? I seem to remember them being less efficient, but they would
give good reduction, and should lower the noise considerably, although
they may require placing motors perpendicular to the output shafts.
Danny
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| (...) I probably could reduce bulk and noise by using worm gears, but at the time I built that part of the machine I only owned two worms and I needed them in other places. The 'crowd' has two motors and transmissions and I had already used one worm (...) (19 years ago, 30-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| (...) Most of the noise is coming from the 'crowd', the part that pushes the bucket back and forth. It uses a bunch of 40, 24 and 8 tooth gears to do it's thing: (URL) And they make a ton of noise, the gears. The motors there do not have built-in (...) (19 years ago, 30-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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