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Will this also work as a 1 to 11M gearbox? If so it might allow a strong force (e.g. the weight of a large body of water) to spin a small electric generator.
by kokey 11y ago
Will this also work as a 1 to 11M gearbox? If so it might allow a strong force (e.g. the weight of a large body of water) to spin a small electric generator. That will allow small scale hydroelectric storage for renewable sources.
If not it can probably still find some applications for turning something like weak wind power into something that can create great pressure.
- furyg3 11y agoI know nothing about this, but I would imagine that this gearbox would need to be made out of some other-worldly material in order to cope with the force necessary to drive it in reverse
- nraynaud 11y agoI'm pretty sure it's already potentially self destructive if there is any snag in the output.
- nraynaud 11y agonope, cycloidal drives can't be backdriven because of the eccentric part, the friction is higher than the driving force for geometry reasons.
- Kenji 11y agoNo, it cannot. As you can see in this video from the site where he explains the mechanism: https://www.youtube.com/embed/vbU1afvCRwc?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1 https://www.youtube.com/embed/vbU1afvCRwc?version=3&rel=1&fs... When he tries to move the red ring against the green ring (at 2:39), the thing doesn't budge. The gearbox concatenates two such transmissions, therefore, it cannot be operated backwards.