Bevel/Miter Gear Mounting Distances

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by asid61

I thought miter/bevel gears by nature exert large axial forces? In a swerve drive you can have a thrust bearing on the module and a separate one on the miter/bevel gears to take two different thrust loads.

There is a little bit of hand waving here, but for the typical FRC swerve that uses 12DP 15T bevels with some reduction after to the wheel (the rough size modules 118, 1717, 973, 1625, etc... have run ) it's okay to use the radial bearing (typical an FR6/FR8 here) to handle these axial loads. If doing this make sure the gear is necked down such as the Vex bevel so it's not rubbing the outer race.

Starting fresh, and not having a massive pile of anecdotal data for these exact bevels to reference, I'd design in better thrust management (or do the math for what thrust you bearing can take and compare that to the loads generated).