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Originally posted by wysiswyg
Actually you have them reversed. A three to one gear ratio would triple the speed of the robot and a one to three gear ratio would increase the torque of the robot by a factor of three. I believe your confusing the speed ratio and the torque ratio which simply enough are inverses of each other.
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I think you have it reversed, according to dictionary.com here is the defenition of "gear ratio":
The ratio of the speed of rotation of the powered gear of a gear train to that of the final or driven gear.