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Originally Posted by s_forbes
Vexpro has a fantastic user guide for their versaplanetary gearboxes that shows what load rating you should expect the gearboxes to withstand. I bring it up every year when we're designing to show the students that there is a limit to what the gearboxes can do. It's an excellent example of "here's what the supplier says their product can handle. We have to stay in that range or it might break". |
For us, this always ends up as: "Here's what the supplier has rated their product for. We've had some requirement creep, so we're going to assume they did their homework and eat into their safety factor."
