Questions tagged [gears]
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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.
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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 ...
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The torque I need to lift the device and correct gear ratio for the device to be as fast as possible
The device have to climb a pipe vertically. I have a DC motor with power rating 21.2 w, output speed 13360 rpm and maximum output torque 154.4 gcm.
My device is 1 kg and I have wheel with 0.012 m ...
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Need help picking motor to wind a spool
The application is a motor attached to a spool to wind/unwind window blinds.
I would like to operate the motor at $v=0.2\text{ m/s}$, with a max load of 1.5 kg.
I need to know the ideal diameter ...
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How can you calculate the torque and speed of a single output gear being driven by two different input gears?
I am building a gearbox that needs to lift around 50lbs very rapidly. I already have a single planetary gearbox that does the job in around 7-10 seconds, but I would like to cut this time down ...
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What is the tolerance on gear pitch?
I'm trying to make a gear to mesh with a motor shaft that I bought online, but it doesn't give any information about the pitch or diameter. When I measured the diameter and pitch of the motor shaft, ...
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Planetary Gearset for Power steering
I am trying to create a power steering system for a go-kart project. In order to switch off between remote control and human control, I plan on implementing a power steering system with a planetary ...
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How to get precision with a small gear?
I want to be able to precisely rotate a item. For this I have positioned the item on top of a very large gear. It is driven by a smaller gear. When the item is in the correct position, I will lock the ...
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Calculating Minimum Gear Ratio To Lift Weight
I have a 337 watt motor, and want to lift ten pounds. What kind of gear ratio will I need for a gearbox I attach to this in order to lift the ten pounds at a constant speed?
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How to increase maximum rotational speed limit of a reduction gearbox?
Reduction gearboxes made of machine steel gear have a maximum limit to prevent changing their physical properties (softening). They change their properties as a result of the temperature increase ...
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Understanding the torque of a motor/gearbox combo
Imagine a typical DC motor / planetary gear combos.
Is my thinking correct:
Say you have a 100 kg mass on a frictionless surface. The gearbox output shaft has a 0.10m arm with which you push the ...
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What are the some of the best (dis)engagement mechanism for small gears?
I’m planing to build a robot out of gears. I was wondering what kind of (dis) engagement mechanism would be suitable for gears that are about 2.5cm (1 inch) in diameter.
PS: preferably, (dis)...
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How to fix this gear
This is a gear that transfers force from a motorcycle kickstarter to the transmission. What method should I use to repair the missing teeth.
