Thread: Designing a Planetary Gearbox to increase speed?
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Re: Designing a Planetary Gearbox to increase speed?
To increase speed, you need to drive the carrier (with a stationary ring). The Sun gear would be output. This is the opposite of the normal FRC arrangement.
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