plasgears: I think that you are moving away from the problem at hand. There are no loads on the gear set (besides sliding friction of the gears on their shafts and the mass of the magnet).
plasgears:
Is stall a good thing? Honestly confused about your sentences. Can we get Nylon 6/6 gears at a good cost(competitive to machined bronze gears, the current design choice) in low quantities?
Pretty cool product. Ive followed the company since I first read about it in Popsci a few years ago, too bad it seems it only has found a foothold in Bicycles.
@Clyde38:
I just realized the problem with rollers is that it might be difficult to keep the required ratio exactly 1:1 especially since they would be deforming at the contact point.
@plasgears What about acetal gears? One of the design goals is zero maintenance.
@Clyde38 I am not sure I fully understand a friction gear arangement. Is that basically no teeth, just rollers? I have been thinking some fairly rigid rollers would do fine.
@williedawg Not sure that would work...
Hi all,
I am trying to design a gear train for an encoder system (negligible force exerted on the system). The gears are fairly small though. Right now I am using a dp of 48 and was wondering if going to a higher number could possibly decrease backlash. I think going to higher than AGMA Q9 is...
