Questions tagged [gears]
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Calculating the torque required to move and hold an arm parallel to the floor
I'm a computer scientist doing a dissertation in robotics and I'm designing a mechanical arm that mirrors a humans, as such I am wanting to pivot the entire arm from a "shoulder" using a stepper motor ...
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Torque between concentric gears
First time asking question here.
I'm not a mechanical engineer!
I have a simple question that I can't explain the answer to it.
I have a double gear (2 concentric gears with different radius) and I ...
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Linear Motion Ratio on Eccentric Cam Pulley
If you have an eccentric pulley wheel and attach a rope to the top most vertical position and pull downward, the point at which the rope is fastened inscribes a circle with the radius of the distance ...
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I need a mechanism/method to control a shaft that can rotate at different speeds. (faster clockwise and slower anti-clockwise)
I need to develop a mechanism - Where in I have a shaft that needs to rotate at different speeds. Lets say at a higher RPM clockwise and a lower RPM anti-clockwise.
This shaft is attached to my ...
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Is there a way to auto-reverse cassette tape with gears only?
From what I read, tape decks auto-reverse by having a sensor keep track of an encoder. When the take up pulley stops turning, the logic board reverses the direction of the motor (and does some other ...
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How Much Efficiency is Lost in a Gear Train
I want to get a rough estimate for the transmission efficiency of two different gear trains. One is a one-stage gear train with 11.67:1 ratio (140/12 teeth) and the other is a compound two-stage gear ...
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Good resources (textbooks) with steel S-N curves?
Looking for S-N curves for common gear materials (steel, cast iron). Are there any sources with multiple materials compiled together?
Currently cobbling some charts but they're more inconsistent than ...
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Attaching Gear onto Motor
I want to attach a 12 toothed spur gear with a bore diameter of 6mm onto the shaft of this motor (6mm diameter). How would I go about doing this? From what I see, the shaft is smooth so is my only ...
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If a driver gear has larger radius than a driven gear, will a larger gear ratio result in more torque supplied to the driven gear?
Suppose a driver gear has larger radius than a driven gear. For example, we have a pinion with a main disk, where the main disk is larger than the pinion and the pinion is a follower. This is the case ...
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solidworks mating gear with shaft problem
I am trying to mate a gear with a shaft via a key.key coincident with gear and cocentericity of gear with shaft cannot both be made.
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Driving Gearbox in Reverse
https://www.maxongroup.com/maxon/view/product/251601
https://www.maxongroup.com/maxon/view/product/gear/spur/gs45/301171
Consider that this motor-gearbox combination is backdriven so that the motor ...
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The optical encoder resolution
The optical encoder has a code wheel with a single track of slots and two photodetectors. The photodetectors are positioned so that they produce signals with a 90 degree phase difference.
I want to ...
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small gearbox for experimental wind mill
The gear box will have little torque as I am only using a 12 by 18" wing which rotates. The two shafts I am using are 1/4 ", one form the wing and the other going the to pivot for the wing to circle, ...
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Motor, a gearbox and a drum with a cable lifting a mass
A lifting device consists of an electric motor, a gearbox and a drum with a cable for lifting a mass.
The speed after the initial acceleration is $v=0.5\,\text{m/s}$.
The gear efficiency $\eta=0.7$
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What is the top limit for torque per diameter ratio for electrical rotation mechanism working in a tube?
Use case: industrial stop valve placed in an another pipe welded perpendicularly making a T-shape.
To make the question more specific let's consider 50mm inner diameter pipe for the linear actuator ...
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gear design.improving gear strength
For improving the gear strength, which one is better based on manufacture and economy? Increasing module or increasing N? With the same surface strength.
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How don't dog clutches collide?
I'm learning about how dog clutches work particularly in sequential transmissions.
I'm having a hard time understanding the principle which ensures dogs will always mesh correctly. I can easily ...
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Did Charles Babbage's Difference Engine use the sautoir carry mechanism from Pascal's calculator?
We know that Blaise Pascal built a mechanical calculator which had a carry mechanism called a sautoir.
You can see a video of it working here, and here.
We know that Charles Babbage wrote a book ...
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Gear train with fixed average speed but irregular instantaneous speed
Is it possible to create a gear train whose average speed is fixed, but whose speed constantly fluctuates? I'm imagining something that would ideally always complete a single revolution in fixed time, ...
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How to calculate the moment of inertia of a worm gear?
Should I consider them as a cylinder to find their inertia? Any tips will be helpful.
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Electric engine and transmission
What kind of automatic transmission would be the best to connect an electric engine with the rear axle of a RWD car?
Specifications:
200HP, 3000rpm electric motor
top speed 220km/h
The automatic ...
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A few questions about cars
When I start the car, why do I hear the engine working when I'm not pressing the gas pedal?
How exactly does the torque and power of the gears work?
Torque = Radius * Force
Power = Torque * Speed
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Calculating needed motor to spin a disk at low RPM
I'm designing a machine that I need to spin a horizontal disk at low RPM using a motor and gearbox. I'm not good at physics so I need help to find a motor/gearbox to fulfill my needs.
It's a ...
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Create Bezel-like ring mechanism
I'm designing a 3d print model of a ring that you can wear, but the outer surface of the ring can be dialed like a watch bezel.
Check this video to see how the bezel moves in grades so it stops on ...
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Gear switching for simple differential steering
I'm rather new to the field of gear systems, and to the field of RC models to which this case applies. I'm trying to design a system where a single variable speed engine would drive two different ...
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How to accumulate torque of multiple independent gears?
I did not find any answers to this simple problem across the web, maybe seeking help in this forum helps:
As an example, let's assume we have multiple windmills, each of them producing torque, but ...
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How To Obtain The Correct Differential Gears With Motor Shaft Adapters
My knowledge in gears in limited to their types (bevel, spur, etc). I am trying to combine the power/torque of two DC motors using a differential gear.
I have a good handle on the idea and design ...
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Friction factor for wormgear design materials
I'm working on a database which involves geometric design parameters, forces analysis and efficiency and losses for wormgear reduction design systems.
To determine the tangential and axial forces ...
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Reduction System for Gate-opener motor
I've been studying this topic for a couple of days now. I started by asking some questions regarding output Torque and gear ratios relations.
Now I came with the whole picture and some calculations ...
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Is there an easy way to calculate carrier output of a planetary gear set which has two inputs?
Online I found many guides and videos on how to calculate outputs of a planetary gearset but all of them have only one input. But how can I calculate output speed of carrier if ring and sun gear are ...
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Gear ratio comparisson
I have been studying about Torque and gear ration in another discussion Torque and RPM calc, and I received good answers that make me go in-depth into this topic. To understand it better, I want to ...
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Torque and RPM calc
started by designing the gear meshing, and now I need to calculate some parameters to determinate if this meshing works for me.
The system considers an electric motor, which technical parameters are: ...
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Wind turbines with down tower power units. Why aren't they more common?
Concerning the big megawatt wind turbines, if there is such a big trouble with gearbox bearings failing much earlier than expected and costly maintanence or replacement of huge gearboxes, what is ...
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Designing a 1-button system allowing for a differentiated control of 2 different valves?
I'm in the processes of building something which requires I'll be able to control the independent opening/closure of two (small, ~10mm in diameter) different adjacent holes using one finger, and I'm ...
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How do Salad Spinners work?
I am curious as to how pump salad spinners work: not in terms of how they spin and use centripetal forces to get rid of water.
I mean in terms of how the pump itself works. How does the 2D motion of ...
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Master/Slave Gear Mechanism for Navball
I am designing a functional replica of the Apollo FDAI (aka 8 ball).
See pics Real FDAI Another view
From the Apollo 8 Flight Journal:
The FD/AI (Flight Director/Attitude Indicator) or "8-ball" ...
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what is the degree of freedom of a pair of gear wheels?
Two gear wheels A and B are touching each other and they can rotate about fixed points P and Q respectively. how to calculate the degree of freedom of the system by using gubbler's equation?
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Efficiency of a planetary gearbox as a function of the lubricants viscosity
So I have a client that is asking about if they should switch from one lubricant to another in a planetary gearbox they have.
The main advantage that this new lubricant has is that it has a much ...
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notch consideration
I'm designing a bevel gear. And I want to design the pinion and the shaft such as they are one piece all together. So I was wondering if I should consider a notch effect at the exact point where the ...
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Bevel gear design & usage
The problem : I need to create a mechanism with 2 parallel shafts, at some distance apart, rotating in the same direction, either clock- or anticlock-wise.
The distance (> 1m) makes it impractical to ...
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Need bevel gear for SG90 servo motor
I am looking for a away I can convert the horizontal rotation into vertical, typically we use bevel gear for such thing.
But I am using a SG90 servo motor for which I am struggling to get the correct ...
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Internal Geneva drive calulations/design
So there is a lot of information out there about designing an external Geneva drive, but I can't seem to find anything about designing an internal one. I'm trying to design something similar to this (...
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Steel Worm/Steel Wheel vs Steel Worm/Bronze Wheel
I have a question regarding worm drives, specifically double-enveloping types:
Do steel worm/steel wheel combinations last longer than steel worm/bronze wheel or steel worm/brass wheel combinations? ...
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Source for plastic rack gear strips
I'm trying to find a source for this type of plastic rack gear:
This image came from this youtube video.
I can find short pieces of straight rack gear on ebay, but nothing like this.
It appears ...
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How to design a coaxial 1:2 gear without reversing direction?
I am trying to design a gear that has a 1:2 speed ratio (input:output). This design is very limited in space and for simplicity and space savings requires the input and output shafts to be coaxial.
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Finding the right worm gear for a wormscrew that didn't come with technical specs
I bought a CNC linear rail guide slide from ebay(seen here). I'm trying to find a proper worm gear to mate with the wormscrew. There is no technical specification that came with the kit however on the ...
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Is there a cheap way to get gears
Is there generally any cheaper way to get a bunch of gear wheels. I've been to some local companies who specialize in gear production and the price is always somewhere in the range 100-150 USD for a ...
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Is it possible to mechanically switch between rotational directions of an output shaft?
I know that it would not be possible while the input is still rotating, but is it possible to create a gear box or chain assembly that can change the direction of rotation?
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Rack pinion possible?
I want to lift a weight of about 300 kg suspended to a rack of width 15 mm. This weight will be lifted using a spur gear pinion with OD not more than 8 mm. The material will be SS 304.
Weight will ...
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Gearhead & 'teeth-track' to drive rotation of ringed encasement?
I am not an engineer, so apologies if this one is a bit of an ill-thought out...
Can anyone show me an example of something like the following scenario:
A small stepping motor driving rotation of a ...
