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Gearhead Construction and Use

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earhead Construction and Use

Spur Gear Type Gearheads
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Planetary Gears

Spur Gear Type Gearheads

Spur gear type gearheads are probably the best possible choice for relatively low torque applications. They tend to be less expensive than comparably sized planetary gearheads and are likely to be quieter in operation as well. Engineers designing high accuracy positioning servos are occasionally surprised to find that many of the small gearhead series supplied by MicroMo use non-integer gear ratios, This fact is often discovered after the engineer has repeatedly tried to reconcile motor encoder counts with gearhead shaft position only to find a small but persistent position error. At first glance, the use of non-integer gear ratios appears to have no apparent purpose (with the possible exception of frustrating servo designers). There is a fundamentally sound reason for designing gearheads with such gear ratios, however, and the servo designer who has sufficient information will generally have no problems using them.

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