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Re: How much torque can the Dewalt Trannies take?

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Originally Posted by Lowfategg View Post
Lets say we were only looking at the Dewalt as a two speed since the person before me said its hard to get 3rd gear to work.
DeWalts are a planetary transmission, and as a result have all the advantages and disadvantages of it. The biggest advantage is the much smaller size of the transmission. This is especially important in less than "traditional" drive designs where transmissions might not have as much space. Non-coaxial swerve systems often are forced to have the motors and any reductions (transmissions) rotate with the swerve modules. If a team were to opt for a multi-speed, non-coaxial swerve system, DeWalts would definitely be the way to go. Of course there's plenty of other scenarios where DeWalts would be advantageous for their size as well, that's just one extreme case.
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