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Re: Was ist das?????.....tiny CVT!!!!!!

btw....at low speed it DOES provide MORE TORQUE!!!!! ......where is the power going hmmm???? not speed so....torque! (i think our mentor can explain it better because he knows the equations and stuff) that is just a simple way of putting it.
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Re: Was ist das?????.....tiny CVT!!!!!!

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btw....at low speed it DOES provide MORE TORQUE!!!!! ......where is the power going hmmm???? not speed so....torque! (i think our mentor can explain it better because he knows the equations and stuff) that is just a simple way of putting it.
at first glance, that is what i thought as well, but when you really think about it, it doesn't (at least not in the config. that i've seen). the planetary gear system is not really a CVT, because it relies on the differences in motor speed, instead of varying the gear ratios. you are assuming that a constant amount of power is going to be going into the system, and if this where true, then you really would get more torque at lower speeds, and vice versa. but since you slow one of the motors down to slow the output speed of gear system, then the amount of power going into the system is decreased.
but as matt adams wrote, you can get the same amount of torque at varying speeds, which is a major advantage. less power needed to achieve desired force=less current draw=less likely to trip a breaker
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Re: Was ist das?????.....tiny CVT!!!!!!

we lower the speed of the motors at close to equal rates...so they are going almost the same speeds (although not always the same direction)
what i mean is that we aren't lowering one of the motors to achieve a slower speed we are lowering both of them...(that is simply lowring power in to each one...) the motors should really never be at different speeds relative to each other
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Re: Was ist das?????.....tiny CVT!!!!!!

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we lower the speed of the motors at close to equal rates...so they are going almost the same speeds (although not always the same direction)
what i mean is that we aren't lowering one of the motors to achieve a slower speed we are lowering both of them...(that is simply lowring power in to each one...) the motors should really never be at different speeds relative to each other
if you are lowering the speed of both motors, then you will also be lowering the torque coming out of both motors, because to lower the speed, you have to lower the power going into them.
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Re: Was ist das?????.....tiny CVT!!!!!!

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if you are lowering the speed of both motors, then you will also be lowering the torque coming out of both motors, because to lower the speed, you have to lower the power going into them.
yeah...i understand but what i'm trying to say is that if both motors are going the same speed /force relative to each other if they oppose in direction they will produce more output torque ...
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No No No!!!

Please, please listen to me very carefully! The planetary CVT will NOT produce more output torque as you describe it!! I know from experience that this is not true. When I first did the equations like you describe I made the exact same error. I made an assumption (actually, a few) that were flawed. The mistake is easy to make and I made it too. When we first got our prototype running, the mistake was obvious.

With two drivers (motors) on a planetary gearbox it is relatively easy to manipulate the SPEED ratio of the input to output. It is true that if you spin the ring gear motor in the opposite direction of the sun gear motor you can get the output shaft to not rotate at all while providing a great amount of torque. However, that torque is the same no matter how fast you spin the ring gear and no matter what direction!! It is the same even if the ring gear motor is not there!! The ring gear motor is taking the place of the housing. When you put the ring gear on a bearing you need to have the motor provide the reaction force that the housing used to provide. The planetary gearset is a lever: the sun gear to planet to ring gear interaction is independant of speed when we are dealing with torque.

The advantage of the configuration is that you will be getting the same output torque at each speed ratio. So even at the faster speeds, you will get the same output torque as at the low speed. Other shifters sacrifice torque for speed, the planetary psuedo-CVT does not.

I have derived the governing equations in my 2002 Whitepaper located here:

ThunderChickens CCT

I will just be blunt: The way you think your CVT will work is dead wrong! I do not want to be rude, but my team wasted a lot of time, money, and energy because I made the same bad assumptions you are making. I do not want to see another team go through what we did. All is not lost. Once we understood how the system actually worked, we sized our drives accordingly and the CCT worked beautifully.

BTW, the worm gear had nothing to do with any of it. It was our way of making a small package for the ring gear drive.

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Re: No No No!!!

okay thanks for the info.....
i just hope we can get it tested soon and see how good (or bad) it is (like backdriving etc....)
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Re: Was ist das?????.....tiny CVT!!!!!!

Wow, I sure hoped we didn't make any of the wrong (same) assumption as 217. I hope we can get this tested soon, but since we are mostly manufacturing everthing ourselves it has been a slow process. Two items in Paul's post I don't understand though: 1) The reaction force is from the Sun and ext. gear pinion and the motors which are attached to a housing and chassis. 2) How can you have the same output torque at different speed ratios - where is the energy going? To this second question it could go into backdriving the other motor. But we designed the gearing so that they should output the same torque at stall. We are also planning to connect a current sensor on the motors to detect when they are backdriven.

If it all goes bad - we do have a backup transmission ready (but it's so darn heavy!!)
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All is not lost

Like I said in the last post; all is not lost. After I posted, I went to your website and looked at your Inventor picture of the transmission. You ARE making the same assumptions as we did. Your gear ratio from the drill motor is way too low and it will backdrive or stay at stall and trip breakers. My biggest suggestion to you is when you are driving at slow speed, turn off the drill motor and have a way to keep the ring gear from spinning. If you spin both motors in opposite directions, make sure the drill motor can't overrun because you will actually start driving backwards. Your config as shown will provide a VERY fast high speed, but you need to handle the stall torque of the drill motor at slow speed.

You can e-mail me and I will give you my phone number if oyu would like to discuss it.

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Re: There are CVT's and there are CVT's.

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It is relatively easy to make a continuously variable transmission if you are willing to turn a percentage of your power into heat.
Or generate electricity to charge a battery - like the Toyota Prius. Incidently, it uses a planetary gear system not unlike the one shown to split the power coming from the gasoline engine and simulateously drive the wheels and charge the battery.

Bring on the hybrid robots...

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Re: Was ist das?????.....tiny CVT!!!!!!

Hybrid robots? What's the hybrid part of it? Electical and Electrical?

First of all, I do not think you will actually be able to charge your battery by any significant amount, if at all.

Motor D: Drive Motor
Motor G: Generator Effect

Motor D has 2 places where it's torque is being used. Motor G and the wheel(s) it is powering. Each provides a different load on the motor. The motor can only provide x output, whereas power to G + Wheels = D output. Also, for D to power G, D must have an input power source (from the battery).

Code:
|BATT|--RES--[ M ]--***--[Wheel]
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   ------RES-------[ G ]
The circuit would look something like this. RES being electrical resistances, *** is Resistance from friction within the gearbox (although relativly low). The loads upon M are outward from that. Anywho.. the turning of G is a load on M, so any electrical force created from G will be less than what is given to M. So the Net electricity used will be lower. BUT... to have equal output to the wheel, (as if G was not attached) more current must be supplied to M.

All in all.. we don't have the tools for perpetual motion.

In the hybrid cars, inertial force is used to generate electricity as well as the gas motor, which is not driven by the electrical motor.
Take a look at Toyata's Flash model of how the Hybrid Prius works:
http://www.toyota.com/vehicles/2004/...syn_drive.html
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Re: Was ist das?????.....tiny CVT!!!!!!

yes...charging the battery we'll leave to the charger....the only time the chip motor would generate energy is when its being backdriven by the drill motor...but w/ current sensors that shouldn't happen...the second it starts to backdrive it will lower the drills speed and up the chips...we'll also keep the amt of power going to the chip a bit higher than drill (although we might not be able to go full speed from a stand still!)
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Re: Was ist das?????.....tiny CVT!!!!!!

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Hybrid robots? What's the hybrid part of it? Electical and Electrical?

First of all, I do not think you will actually be able to charge your battery by any significant amount, if at all.
Neither do I...I don't think it would be an advantage at all.

Also, for a somewhat more detailed, but unofficial, explanation of the Prius hybrid system, go here. The hybrid system is a bit more sophisticated than the flash animation would imply. (The general idea is the same though)

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