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The planetary gear works as a differential with the Sun gear, Planet carrier, and Ring gear each connected to something. You can see how this works here: https
by phkahler 5mo ago
The planetary gear works as a differential with the Sun gear, Planet carrier, and Ring gear each connected to something. You can see how this works here:
https://eahart.com/prius/psd/ https://eahart.com/prius/psd/
- vel0city 5mo agoThat animation of the Power Split Device really helped me understand how the thing actually worked, even more than some of the physical models people show do.