Hand Ergometer

[irving2008]

1. Surely you've got that backwards? The magnets are intended to be used at saturation in pick-up mode. Here we will run them well below saturation, hopefully somewhere on the linear-ish part of the B-I curve. I'm only using the saturated value of 1.6T to find the max possible retardation.

2. Ok I get you now. At the nominal design speed of 60rpm I guess there will be 'vibrations' at 90Hz from the planet/sun wheel interface and 60Hz from the ring/planet interface. I expect these will be small - I guess they'll depend on the quality of the tooth shape and the fit of the gears. We won't know til we try! :)

[FatFreddie]

We won't know til we try! :)

Current state of trying is an interference fit :-(

I printed some calibration parts and they came out fine so I need to look at it in more detail.

I suspect that the plastic will reduce vibration to some extent but as you say, trying it is the real test.

[irving2008]

Current state of trying is an interference fit :-(

I printed some calibration parts and they came out fine so I need to look at it in more detail.

I suspect that the plastic will reduce vibration to some extent but as you say, trying it is the real test.

Does that mean you've printed them? :)

I can't guarantee the accuracy of the drawings, I use the MOD1 profile found on the web then scaled it up 1.25 to get a MOD1.25 profile but the way I had to rotate it to get the final gear may be over/undersize. I suspect its the ring gear thats slightly under... maybe you could measure the OD and ID of the gears and let me know?

[FatFreddie]

I just printed some 1mm thick test pieces.

I loaded the 15 and 30 tooth gears into cambam and generated a profile with the built in generator and it was exactly the same outer and root diameters (just a bit more lateral clearance in the root) so I suspect you're right about the ring gear - unfortunately cambam doesn't do ring gears (I've bumped a thread asking for them).

Measured OD on the 30t gear is 40.0mm and 21.3mm on the 15t and the tooth tip diameter on the ring gear is 72.7mm and the root diameter is 76.4 (near as I can tell - it's a bit flimsy)

[irving2008]

I just printed some 1mm thick test pieces.

I loaded the 15 and 30 tooth gears into cambam and generated a profile with the built in generator and it was exactly the same outer and root diameters (just a bit more lateral clearance in the root) so I suspect you're right about the ring gear - unfortunately cambam doesn't do ring gears (I've bumped a thread asking for them).

Measured OD on the 30t gear is 40.0mm and 21.3mm on the 15t and the tooth tip diameter on the ring gear is 72.7mm and the root diameter is 76.4 (near as I can tell - it's a bit flimsy)

OD for MOD1.25 = (N+2)*1.25, so 30T = 40mm and 15T = 21.25mm.

tooth tip dia on ring gear should be (N-2)*MOD = 58 *1.25 = 72.5mm and root dia 78.125mm which is correct on drawing...

[FatFreddie]

Ok, looks like it's a problem with printing the internal features - let me have a look at it over the weekend - trying to learn Hadoop (if you don't know, you probably don't want to) at the moment and it's not conducive to concentrating on other stuff :-(

[FatFreddie]

Ok, some progress. I've now got a set of gears that mesh reasonably well but I'm not happy with the print quality so I'm going to try a different slicer - the one I'm using at the moment is Sli3er and it's fast and easy to use but it doesn't seem to be the best quality. I was using Skeinforge before which is better quality output but not very friendly - I'll have another go with that over the next couple of days.