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Originally posted by KenWittlief
The tab that engages it is spring loaded - when you pedal forwards it catches, when you pedal backwards the tabs slides on the sawtooth shaped edges.
Now that I think of it, the high speed motor doenst need this, only the high torque motor. So you could have a two motor tranny and use the high speed motor to go backwards when you need to.
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As said above, this is a one-way clutch. However, there are a few problems with your design:
1. The high-speed motor would be constantly operating in near-stall condition when accelerating, wasting a lot of electricity.
2. No reverse direction, unless you use a shifting clutch design that reverses the rotation of the gears. You cant just have the one-way clutch on the low-speed motor, because when you rotate the clutch in reverse, the engaging mechanism will catch. Think about it.