Thread: Designing a Planetary Gearbox to increase speed?
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Re: Designing a Planetary Gearbox to increase speed?
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Originally Posted by IKE View Post
As Tom is showing, technically, all 3 can spin at a given rate. One of the more recent and famous versions of this is the drivetrain of a Prius:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Synergy_Drive
From Wikipedia

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
This limited gear-ratio set, forces the engine crankshaft to rotate at speeds where the ICE is less efficient, i.e. where a liter of fuel produces less joules.
Does this make sense? Does a limited gear-ratio set on a ICE produce incomplete combustion?
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