Monday, November 24, 2008

Get in Gears investigation

Today, we've rebuilt the taskbot and put some changes in the gear ratio in order to experiment relations between their speeds and the numbers of their teeth or their sizes.

There are basically two gears: the driving gear and driven gear. The driving gear is a gear that is directly connected to the motor with a stick that goes though centers of both of them, and the driven gear is a gear that is attached to the wheel and connected to the driving gear.

Today, we put a 24t for the driving gear and a 8t for the driven gear, which resulted in the really high speed. Based on it, I could've reached a conclusion that as the size of the driving gear increases, the speed of the driven gear increases as well, whereas as the size of the driving gear decreases, the speed of the driven gear decreases.

2 comments:

Johnny said...

Good job ! You got the idea !

l.clark said...

Clear explanation of the concepts behind driven and driving gears