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Our conveyor is driven very fast by a modified FP motor which I detialed in another post: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...t=72513&page=2 |
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Yesterday we got in our two test materials, and they work like a charm when used together. I will say that we don't intend for our conveyor to go extremely fast like some people have posted, so YMMV for this setup.
The first is a nylon mesh, with tiny holes. With a belt that's 6" wide, this stuff simply does not break. After putting a sample in the vise and yanking on it, and on two glued pieces, all we found was that we were getting more and more tired of trying to break the stuff. It showed no signs of fatigue, neither on the material nor on the glued join. However, it does not grip the ball like I though it would. The second material is a neoprene mesh. It turns out that the mesh has 'teeth' that grip the ball ridiculously well in one direction, yet it has a worse grip than the nylon in the other direction...I wonder what we can use that for... It's downside is that it is extremely fragile. But combine the two with some hot glue... and BAM a ridiculously strong, flexible, lightweight belt that is cheap ($40) and easy to make (don't stretch the neoprene when bonding the two though!). We also have a small sample of the two materials expoxied together, so tomorrow we'll see how well that worked out. /edit I should also add that we're using this material as a tread to drive the belt. Last edited by JesseK : 06-02-2009 at 10:49. |
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we're doing a conveyor belt design and i need to know what kind of motor would be best for a conveyor belt?
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I hate to put it like this, but the answer is: it depends.
For our conveyor, we're using only 1 window motor. With our roller, it gets the balls through 40" of conveyor in 5 seconds. This is acceptable to us, as the motor has more than enough torque and the speed is 'fast enough'. We also are trying to conserve weight, so more motors are impractical right now. (Our drive train + pneumatics + electronics board came in at 65 lbs ) |
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