Thread: Conveyor belt motor
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Re: Conveyor belt motor
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Originally Posted by Greg Peshek View Post
We were using FPs for both the ball intake mech and the conveyor.. however we are having issues with the wobble of the FP gearbox, and it is kind of slow. So now we're keeping a FP on the collector and putting a CIM on the conveyor belt, which should actually make our conveyor work 2 x faster.
There have been some excellent posts on removing stages from a FP gearbox for more speed. I won't take credit for the idea, search around.

It is as simple as a 1/4" threaded coupler (which is reduced in length to the width of a gear, and happens to be the perfect fit inside the plastic gears), some threaded rod or bolts cut to size, and (2) 1/4" bronze bushings.

You can get about 1000rpm with 2 gears left in, and about 3300 with 1.