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Originally Posted by free_rider_151
On the Bane Bots website they sell an adapter to put 2 CIMs on 1 12:1 gear box. Does anyone know how effiecient this setup is? Can the gear box handle it?
~Olav Oksnevad
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The set up adds one extra gear pair to the gearbox so the efficiency is going to drop some but they are simple spur gears so I would estimate 95% as efficient as using the single motor set up.
As to how efficient the entire gearbox is, that is a bit trickier.
I typically use 85% per stage for planetary gear boxes* That would mean that the banebot 56mm gearbox would be about 72% efficient. The dual motor gearbox would be about 69% efficient, a difference not even worth worrying about (IMHO).
Joe J.
*assuming the ratio is low enough -- at ratios much higher than 6:1 per stage, the efficiency drops like a rock, at 10 to 1 the efficiency is often in the 30-40% range -- for just one stage. YIKES! That is why if you want 100:1 ratio in a planetary gearbox it is better to do 4:1 + 5:1 + 5:1 rather than 10:1 + 10:1 One has an efficiency of over 60% while the other has an efficiency below 15%