Paul Gould is doing good work with these reduction drives. This video shows how a triple reduction system works and just how simple it is.
Note that all the points of contact with the plastic lobes are ball bearing units. This unit is about as complex as they get and it is still easy to see how it works. But do notice there must be three dozen bearings total. At the end of the video where he spins the drive with the drill you can see the bearings all around the outside of the gear rotate. This is not required. Those can be made with pins or you can use a machined ring gear. https://youtu.be/ewoUsVMFWfU My use case for these is robotics but there is such a large overlap between robots and machine tools. I am building both a power steering system for a robot self-drive car and a z-axis for a Harbor Freight mini mill. I use the same motor and drive electronics for both of these. The only difference is the mill uses a 16mm ball screw and the car uses spur gears But the same NEMA23 motor. Paul is working on walking robots but there is no reason not to use one of his knee joints as an A-axis in a mill. In both cases you put a 2000 PPR encoder on it can use closed loop control. On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 7:53 PM andrew beck <andrewbeck0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Chris > > So do they use some needle roller bearings that run on the lobes or > something? > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
