mating motors
 

would any of you feel different mating the drill motor and the FP motor running through the drill motor gear box with the new FP motors and their increased power?

nope we're doing it
check it out:

You know, seeing all thsee really cool drive trains makes me wish our robot could have more than one drive system! Oh well, that just means we need to build more robots! ;)

Thanks goodness for safety factors...
 

I am really surprised at how well the drill transmissions must tolerate overloading conditions.

The gearbox that you see above puts something like 3-5 times the input torque into the transmissions than the drill motor hooked directly.

It is very surprising that these drills are designed with that much safety margin.

As long as the safety factor stays above 1 that is all you need.

Joe J.

Re: Thanks goodness for safety factors...
 

I guess the question is......is this the "before" or "after" power-on picture? :D

-Quentin

Re: Thanks goodness for safety factors...
 

:cool: Just wait till you see what Dennis and I created! Drill motor/Atwood motor combo running into a comman shaft. We pulled the first stage gears out and made an adapter to drive via the gear dowels. I am concerned we might toast the tranny if we get slammed in the oppisite direction when under full throttle, but I don't think the electric motors will deliver a sudden shock to the tranny the way I do in my 3500 lb.Camaro dropping the hammer at 8000 rpm and dead hooking! Broke a few trannys in my day. Since gone to a turbo 400 with a trans brake and a 5000 rpm stall converter.

In a preliminary drive test, we are making a bundle of torque in low range, and are almost uncontrollable in high. I agree that these transmissions are suprisingly tough. But driving screws into 25 year old pine puts a little stress on the trans too!:D

Re: Re: Thanks goodness for safety factors...
 

Our team almost went that way, too. Now as we pop breakers with the drill motors in high gear (2:1 on output), I'm kind of wishing we did. :/