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So how do you connect two gears at a distance? The answer is a pulley, but these gears are spinning at different speed and torque. The  answer to that is how a transmission works. So when a car is shifting gear the clutch is engaged so that stops full power to the drive gears the shaft however is still spinning. So what it has is a secondary in between gear that has pointed teeth to guide the spinning drive shaft to the gears that connect directly to the engine. this gear is a small free spinning gear that is a guide. So with that out of the way I can say that I need this for a part to engage a winch system and I'm using the same concept to connect the motor gearbox to the winch device. this was typed in less that 2 minutes and I think I hit over 100 words per minute I am so happy.

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I do I just explained this so horribly that it sound like BS so hard.

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Its working like a constant mesh transmission. So the gears on the motor gearbox are constantly spinning at a certain rate. To increase the torque and engage the winch mechanism we need a gear to guide the gearbox gears along the shaft of the winch horizontally to connect the power. This gear has teeth that are angled inward twords a point so that gears can easily connect and disconnect. This guide gear is free spinning. Both the gearbox and winch gears are hard connections to their respected shafts. the guide gear allows for the smooth transition of the two gears to meet after several rotations and power to be driven to the winch instead of the wheels. This makes the winch receive all the power from the motors.

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1 minute ago, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

Its working like a constant mesh transmission. So the gears on the motor gearbox are constantly spinning at a certain rate. To increase the torque and engage the winch mechanism we need a gear to guide the gearbox gears along the shaft of the winch horizontally to connect the power. This gear has teeth that are angled inward twords a point so that gears can easily connect and disconnect. This guide gear is free spinning. Both the gearbox and winch gears are hard connections to their respected shafts. the guide gear allows for the smooth transition of the two gears to meet after several rotations and power to be driven to the winch instead of the wheels. This makes the winch receive all the power from the motors.

Sounds like you're trying to describe something like an over-complicated CVT.

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Not entirely. So the gears have a cone teeth arrangement and its using what I just found out is called a synchronizer ring to switch gears easy. This has to be done on the fly using parts we make or find. Ta da, still drawing out the plans however.

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16 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

I don't think you fully understand the concept of how a transmission works.

Well a CVT is like a belt that takes power from the engine and brings it to the wheels without any actual gears like a manual or automatic transmission. I don't think it's quite a pulley, or maybe it is?

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So this entire thing is to be used on a robot that needs a way to pull itself vertically up against 480 inch-pounds of force. This is gona be a fun 6 weeks

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1 hour ago, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

So how do you connect two gears at a distance? The answer is a pulley, but these gears are spinning at different speed and torque. The  answer to that is how a transmission works. So when a car is shifting gear the clutch is engaged so that stops full power to the drive gears the shaft however is still spinning. So what it has is a secondary in between gear that has pointed teeth to guide the spinning drive shaft to the gears that connect directly to the engine. this gear is a small free spinning gear that is a guide. So with that out of the way I can say that I need this for a part to engage a winch system and I'm using the same concept to connect the motor gearbox to the winch device. this was typed in less that 2 minutes and I think I hit over 100 words per minute I am so happy.

A standard car transmission uses a friction plate to transmit rotational energy from the flywheel to the rest of the drivetrain. When the car is in gear, the clutch is engaged and the engine and transmission are connected. When you shift, you disengage the clutch (by pressing the clutch pedal), change the gear ratio (input speed from the engine relative to the output speed of the transmission driveshaft), then re-engage the clutch.

 

It sounds more like you are trying to describe the function of an idler gear; which are free gears that can be placed in between two driving gears. Typically they are used when you want two driven gears to spin in the same direction. Idler gears don't affect the gear ratio however they do affect rotation hand. Going back to the car example, an idler gear is used in between the input shaft and the layshaft in order to make the output spin in the opposite direction (causing the car the differential and wheels to spin backwards). You'll also find them on caterpillar tracks since you want the main driven gears to spin in the same direction.

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