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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli
1. Motor mounting and efficiency. Although the gears are very efficient, in some cases the motor mounting was putting undo pressure on the motor shaft causing excessive efficiency loss. We solved this problem by making plastic motor mounts and eliminating the input bearing. This gives about a 20% increase in efficiency.
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I am slightly unclear on how VPs should be assembled given there is still documentation about the metal plate on your website. (In particular, the user guide which students used to assemble the motors makes no mention of the plastic plates)
Our gearboxes came with the metal and plastic motor mounting plates, they were assembled with the metal motor mounting plates. Is this a satisfactory motor mounting scheme with the absence of the bearing, or should they be swapped out for the plastic mounting plates.