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Re: Designing a Planetary Gearbox to increase speed?


For a given required mechanical power output at the engine crankshaft, there is a continuum of engine_speed + fuel_flow_rate combinations which will produce that power. Only one of those pairs minimizes the fuel_flow_rate.