Re: [Emc-users] New zero backlash gearbox

2021-08-27 Thread Eric Keller
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 3:12 PM Mark Johnsen wrote: > The galaxie's are really expensive. The average LCNC'er would freak out at > the price and not go w/ it. > How much? I have bought stuff from Schunk for work, so I doubt the price would surprise me much. I'm not buying a new harmonic drive

Re: [Emc-users] New zero backlash gearbox

2021-08-27 Thread Mark Johnsen
I've seen both harmonic gearboxes and that Galaxie put into robotic applications. The Galaxie is super strong, high torque, and has very good stiffness from input to output, which is critical in some (medical) robotic applications. The max output speed is probably lower than the harmonic drive, b

Re: [Emc-users] New zero backlash gearbox

2021-08-27 Thread John Dammeyer
Perhaps these are over designed for a lot of projects? >From what I understand robots and even the Canadarm on the ISS use the >harmonic drives for the joints. Suppose I wanted to build a duplicate of this with slightly longer arms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armatron I have one of these

Re: [Emc-users] New zero backlash gearbox

2021-08-27 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 at 00:42, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > > Really nice. Looks similar to a harmonic drive but more complicated. It > would be awesome to see what are the advantages of these over harmonic > drives. It looks a lot stronger. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium at

Re: [Emc-users] New zero backlash gearbox

2021-08-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 August 2021 22:58:10 Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > > But I still think the loose belt is a better idea. But get rid of > > the separate and expensive ball bearings and make the armature > > itself eccentric, wrapping it in a dual row, printed in plastic > > bearing using crosman bb's

Re: [Emc-users] New zero backlash gearbox

2021-08-26 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
> > But I still think the loose belt is a better idea. But get rid of the > separate and expensive ball bearings and make the armature itself > eccentric, wrapping it in a dual row, printed in plastic bearing using > crosman bb's for balls is working moderately well for me. And it will > be strong

Re: [Emc-users] New zero backlash gearbox

2021-08-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 August 2021 17:57:09 Ralph Stirling wrote: > This might inspire some of you. > > https://www.wittenstein-us.com/zero-backlash-galaxie-gearbox/ > > -- Ralph That looks like an excedrin headache to try and print. IMO, this is designed to get around any patents that might still exist

Re: [Emc-users] New zero backlash gearbox

2021-08-26 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Really nice. Looks similar to a harmonic drive but more complicated. It would be awesome to see what are the advantages of these over harmonic drives. El jue, 26 ago 2021 a las 19:00, Ralph Stirling (< ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu>) escribió: > This might inspire some of you. > > https://www.wit

[Emc-users] New zero backlash gearbox

2021-08-26 Thread Ralph Stirling
This might inspire some of you. https://www.wittenstein-us.com/zero-backlash-galaxie-gearbox/ -- Ralph ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users