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Re: pic: PBL-104: Planetary Ballshifter

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Originally Posted by LCJ View Post
Beautiful.
Is the sprocket sandwiched between the planetary gear set and the motor output? It looks like the sprocket's face is being attached straight to the planetary gear plate?

Really, really cool design!
Pretty much. The sprocket is attached to a custom versahub, which acts as a carrier plate for the planetary gearset and can be shifted into to skip the 3:1 reduction from the sun gear to the carrier plate.
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