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Originally Posted by Rob Stehlik
You make a good point about over constraining things. It's not so much the location of the motors in the gearbox, but the angular alignment of the 11T and 18T gears on all of the motors have to be the same. This is probably not easy to do...
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After some more thought, I guess there's 3 main requirements:
- Spacing of the motors (easy peasy)
- Correct alignment of both pinions on each shaft (hmm, tricky)
- Assembly such that the pinions of each motor are in synch with every other motor (this part would be fun!)
For what it's worth, the
Penguineers used a shifting design with two pinions per motor successfully in 2012. Their solution to these issues was apparently to make 4 gearboxes, one for each wheel.
