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Offline CRichTopic starter

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Noob question, gears, shafts, and attachments
« on: October 28, 2012, 03:22:33 PM »
Hi guys,

I have a small problem...

I want to use a vex mulit-dir wheel, which takes a square shaft, but my servo has a spline.

is there a product to bridge my gap or do i need to run them gear to gear (gear on servo and gear on wheel)?

Also, does anyone know a good company to purchase bevel or miter gears from?

Thanks

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Re: Noob question, gears, shafts, and attachments
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2012, 01:17:33 PM »
Ideally you would use VEX servos which have a square hole instead of a standard servo spline

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Re: Noob question, gears, shafts, and attachments
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2012, 10:19:23 PM »
Hi,

I want to use a vex mulit-dir wheel, which takes a square shaft, but my servo has a spline.

is there a product to bridge my gap or do i need to run them gear to gear (gear on servo and gear on wheel)?
You didn't mention the make of your servo (splines differ from one make to another), but here's a hub for Hitec servos that should be modifiable if you're handy:
http://www.active-robots.com/motors-wheels/hubs/servo-horn-tubing-adapter-pair.html
They'll cost you around half of a Vex motor though.
Regards,
Søren

A rather fast and fairly heavy robot with quite large wheels needs what? A lot of power?
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