Thread: Banebots 42mm gearbox: Recommendations for use
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Re: Banebots 42mm gearbox: Recommendations for use
This thread has provided a lot of good information, with all kinds of technical tidbits. I'll try to make my comments brief regarding our experience.

We bought two 256:1 to use with F/P motors for arm rotation. We used one gearbox with 1:4 reduction from the Banebots to the tower. The second was a spare. The first one failed almost immediately. We installed the second one, and it also failed almost immediately.

We, obviously, were asking way too much of the gearbox and ended up making our own gearing to rotate our tower with a big CIM. The bottom line is that anyone using a 256:1 Banebots with an F/P motor needs to isolate the output from all shocks, and probably avoid ever loading the motor to much below 80% of no-load rpm.

We are reliably using two 64:1 Banebots gearboxes for less demanding applications, but the 256:1 Banebots, F/P combination is a failure waiting to happen, and a very short wait.
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Last edited by Kit Gerhart : 23-02-2007 at 16:17. Reason: fix typo