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Help with gears/ratio/reducer

Discussion in '3D Printing' started by SilentChill, Feb 4, 2017.

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  1. adgun

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    With a bigger pulley you need a longer belt to normaly, or shorten actuator stroke.
    With a shorter stroke he needs different gear math to.
    I adviced him a i=10 reduction to keep cost down and keep it simple
    Sorry for te bad english
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    adgun, Feb 21, 2017
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    Not compleetly
    I did the math with youre motor in it
    Youre 10 turn pot will make 500rpm @ topspeed
    And this is the pot max shaft speed to (see tech spec sheet)
    I hope it last long!
    adgun, Feb 21, 2017
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    My motor probably running at around 90% top speed so I think it should be fine. I will get one and try
    SilentChill, Feb 21, 2017
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    This is made on rated speed.
    A belt needs tension, when this tension come on pot shaft its give a shorter lifetime.
    Try to take tension from potshaft with a second bearingblock upon pulley for example!
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    adgun, Feb 21, 2017
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    Yes thanks been looking for some reasonably priced multi turn pots for a while but never stumbled across them
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    Worm_Gear.gif
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    I know you’re trying out the 10 turn halls @SilentChill but to answer this from your first post,
    , I wonder if you could modify this 200:1 plastic gearbox by removing the motor and make them work with yours and a 1 turn hall pot somehow? They're only $5.75 each too.

    0J1094.200.jpg

    https://www.pololu.com/product/1120
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    Any pics on your final product @SilentChill . See you got them sorted a while ago. How often did you break your wire wound pots btw? Im commited to the pots i have for now as this build is already hemeraging cash as it is haha but if they start to break I'll be def keen on converting to hall sensors.
    Peacemaker105, Oct 20, 2018
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    an alternative is to drop the potentiometer and use a shaft encoder instead

    get the arduino to count the pulses and convert them to one rotation using some maths

    i suggest 360 pulse encoder - if it turns 10 times for one main rotation you have 3600 pulses per revolution


    are you using the smc3 code ?

    maybe someone have converted one to read pulses instead of pot voltage already
    Gadget999, Oct 20, 2018
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