pic: ABS-114, supercompact planetary PTO shifter

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pic: ABS-114, supercompact planetary PTO shifter

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02-01-2016, 17:38

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Re: pic: ABS-114, supercompact planetary PTO shifter

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Originally Posted by asid61

There is no real "PTO shaft"; there is a single shaft. The PTO output is attached to the ring gear, which is possible due to epicyclic (planetary)/differential gearing shenanigans.

I hope I'm misreading this, but I can't figure out how to make sense of this. If the PTO output comes down the same shaft as the wheel drive, what makes the PTO mechanism move in one case but the wheels in the other?

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