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Originally Posted by trumpthero786
I actually do have another question  For the articulating arm, why did you use a pair of gears to go from the gearbox to the arm itself? Is it necessary? Could you have gone from the Planetary directly into the arm? |
We were worried about putting any weird torques on the versa planetary. There is definitely a way to direct drive using the shaft (a hex to hex coupler...). Actually, if we had access to a hex to hex coupler that's probably what we would've done. The geometry also worked out nicely with the gears.