Programming instructions

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Motion
Inventor’s Guide
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In some applications excessive loads can damage the components of the VEX Motion
Subsystem. In these cases there are often ways to reinforce the system to reduce the load
each individual component will experience, or so that the load is no longer concentrated at a
single location on any given component.
EXAMPLE:
One example of a component
failure is fracturing gear teeth.
Another example is rounding
out the square hole the shaft
goes through. If either of
these situations exists an easy
way to x it is to use multiple
gears in parallel. Try using two
gear trains next to each other
to decrease the load on each
individual gear.
There are several ways to transfer motion in the VEX Robotics Design System. A number
of Motion Subsystem accessory kits are available with a variety of advanced options. The
primary way to transfer motion is through the use of spur gears. Spur gears transfer motion
between parallel shafts, and can also be used to increase or decrease torque through the use of
gear ratios.
These gears can also be combined with sprocket & chain reductions, and also with advanced
gear types to create even more complex mechanisms.
Introduction to the Motion Subsystem, continued
Rotating Arm
Gear Train 2
Gear Train 1
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