Has anyone here done a belt driven drive train im looking to use a pulley and a variable pully to create a dynamic drive system. Like a snowmobile works with a belt. what parts / suppliers did you use and do you have any pictures?
What pros / cons do you have for it ? any issues durring the season?
Thankyou very much?
It sounds like you’re trying to make a Continuously Variable Transmission. There have been several thread recently about them, including:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48894&highlight=CVT
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50244&highlight=CVT
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50033&highlight=CVT
we (1529) are considering a belt driven robot
so far we have no “GOOD” Idea about tolerances or any other “inportant” aspects related to the belt system
so… i guess im saying
WE need help too!!
last year team 118 did something like a belt drive with multiple motors… we had 3 motors powering our crab drive and we had v-belt which is made of eagle tubing around pulleys that were on all of the shafts coming out of our wheel boxes… i willl try to find some pictures of it and post it up
Just a note on belts in general: last year, our shooter wheel was powered by a belt, and over the course of the season, it wore down so much it eventually wouldn’t go (it broke at Ramp Riot, and may have broken before- I didn’t spend a whole lot of time in our pit my rookie year), so MAKE SURE YOU HAVE EXTRAS!!!
so looking through lil lavery’s thread and doing a little research on my own im still having trouble finding suppliers for theese variable diameter pulleys. Any suggestions?
is this what you’re looking for? Click on some of the links on the left side of the page, having to do with transmission systems. Or search the site for variator