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Re: Designing a Planetary Gearbox to increase speed?

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Originally Posted by scuba1000 View Post
I have found little information about using a planetary gearbox the other way around to multiply speed. Is it commonly done or is there some other alternative to this?
While it can be done, in FRC it usually isn't, because our motors are generally too fast and we need to slow the speed down (without losing power). All the info above is good.
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