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Gearing Calculator
Hey all. I just finished a nifty little program I call GearUp. You input wheel diameter, motor free speed, and your ideal maximum speed. You then pull up McMaster or whatever your source is for ordering gears and input all the teeth sizes (sprockets, gears, etc.) available to you. It will spit out what teeth ratios would suit your needs and what the new theoretical maximum speed would be.
Right now the 1.2 version only does up to 2 gear stages (1:2, 5:2), etc. Later versions will be able to do more gear stages, drive train and otherwise torque calculations, and gear ratios unrelated to drive trains.
What I need to know is this: is anyone interested in this program and think I should keep working at it, or is there another, better program out there, or is it a waste of time because you'd rather do it by hand, or what? Please post back with comments, I'd really appreciate it!
Oh, and I'll be releasing it via the White Papers soon, as soon as I tweak it. I'll also release the source code (C++) with it, so people can modify whatever they want.
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Gui Cavalcanti
All-Purpose College Mentor with a Mechanical Specialty
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Class of 2008
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