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Re: pic: VEX High Reduction Gearbox

Cool gearbox, JVN!

We had a guy call us this past summer, wanting to use a Toughbox and a low power motor to slowly move a parabolic solar panel so that it follows the sun.

So... we found a small gearmotor package from Dayton, and used that as an input to the Toughbox. We bench tested this assembly and found out that the output shaft of the Toughbox was doing 1 revolution in about 18 minutes. Of course, this is much faster than the Earth is spinning, but it was a good way to use a very low power motor to move a 12 foot long solar panel.

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