Broken Belt

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by ubermeister

So having to replace the belts this often is normal? I would expect the belts to be rated for a lot longer than we used them (I assume they were made for industrial applications)



I haven't personally looked, but Ben (m3ch4num470r) claims he couldn't find any specs for the belts. They were the ones that came in the kit of parts.

Changing a belt is not necessarily normal, however in an application like this, there is a decent chance for small defects to add up and create a failure.

The point of my post was to illustrate that even a great design isn't perfect.

If you went out of your way to lookup and calculate the correct tension specs and you applied them effectively than this is definitely not normal. However I do not find many robotics teams calculating how much tension they are actually putting on the belt. If you did do this, than some more specs on the belt would be nice to start searching for a cause.