Planetary gear reduction?

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AZ_guy
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Planetary gear reduction?

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Has anyone used these? I’m occasionally skipping steps and I think one of the reasons is becuse my motors are just direct driving rack and pinion. Fitting these on my table would be pretty straight forward. I know that gear reduction has backlash, I also think there are settings to compensate for it in Mach 3 but I’m not sure if this will add a bunch of accuracy issues into my system

If these don’t work well, is there a belt reduction you guys recommend? Is 4:1 the right ratio?

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Or maybe one of these? I could add these to my current motors

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Re: Planetary gear reduction?

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check your wiring from your breakout board to your drives

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... yDfzHuK1jr

pdf page 40, section 4.4.3

drives work best if they are getting a nice chunky step.

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here is a bit of reading on those planetary gearboxes to consider or at least be aware of ..... read the posts rather side of this one linked.

http://forum.cncdrive.com/viewtopic.php ... ary#p13439
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Re: Planetary gear reduction?

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Just realized I posted this in the wrong part of the forum
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