pic: Planitary Transmission

[Andrew Schuetze]

Originally Posted by Tapoore

I like the idea, but I would never put the Denso motors in a drivetrain. Even though the worm inside the motor is metal, the gear is fairly soft plastic and strips way too easily.

If you want to make your tranny anti-backdriveable (sp?), I would recommend that using a wormgear other than the one in the Denso.

Worm gear in a drive-train also means no coasting once power to the motors is cut. Don't know if that is good or bad but seems like it would put a high load on the worm gear if a high speed run came at the end of a match...

Love the work and wish I had some ability to design drive-train transmissions.