Thread: Forward/Reverse difference in drill motors.
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As long as you're using bevel gears...
Posted by Gregory Ross at 03/20/2001 10:22 PM EST


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In Reply to: this question appears over and over again
Posted by Ken Leung on 03/20/2001 10:02 PM EST:



How about keeping them laying flat, but with one pointing towards the front of the robot, and the other pointing towards the rear?


: You might be able to rotate the motors vertically so that one is pointing upward and the other downward. However, that will also risk unnecessary damage to the wiring on the pointing upward motor. You have to remember that the drill motor assembly is pretty long, so you need to leave enough room vertically to fit it in the drive train, meaning a higher center of mass for the robot. And of course, you will need some sort of Bevel gear to transfer the vertical rotational motion into horizontal motion. However, you want to use as little gears as possible because no gears have an efficiency of 100%, meaning when ever you use more gears, there will be more power lost.


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