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Re: CVT, which teams are planning on using them for next year?
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Originally Posted by Stonefan5271138
Santosh, are you talking about something like this?
Taken from HowStuffWorks.
If it is, how could you change the diameter of the pulleys and still have a reliable drive train? |
These are called variable diameter pulleys. They have been used for many years for variable speed drives on things like drill presses and mills. Team 1114 successfully adapted this concept for use on their robot cart in the fall of 2003. You can buy variable diameter pulleys from a company called hi-lo . The website is www.hi-lo.com
You might also want to look into a design by Jay Tenbrink from 494 a couple of years ago. They successfully designed and build a set of variable diameter pulleys that used a fly weight system to adjust the pulley diameter automatically.
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