As servo technology has evolved-with manufacturers producing smaller, yet better motors -gearheads have become increasingly essential partners in motion control. Locating the optimum pairing must consider many engineering considerations.
• A servo motor running at low rpm operates inefficiently. Eddy currents are loops of electrical current that are induced within the motor during operation. The eddy currents actually produce a drag push within the engine and will have a larger negative effect on motor overall performance at lower rpms.
• An off-the-shelf motor’s parameters may not be ideally suitable for run at a low rpm. When a credit card applicatoin runs the aforementioned motor at 50 rpm, essentially it isn’t using all of its available rpm. As the voltage continuous (V/Krpm) of the engine is set for a higher rpm, the torque constant (Nm/amp)-which is directly related to it-is usually lower than it requires to be. Because of this, the application requirements more current to operate a vehicle it than if the application had a motor particularly designed for 50 rpm. A gearhead’s ratio reduces the motor rpm, which is why gearheads are sometimes called gear reducers. Utilizing a gearhead with a 40:1 ratio,
the motor rpm at the input of the gearhead will be 2,000 rpm and the rpm at the output of the gearhead will be 50 rpm. Operating the engine at the higher rpm will allow you to avoid the concerns

Servo Gearboxes provide freedom for how much rotation is achieved from a servo. Most hobby servos are limited by just beyond 180 degrees of rotation. Many of the Servo Gearboxes use a patented external potentiometer to ensure that the rotation amount is independent of the equipment ratio set up on the Servo Gearbox. In this kind of case, the small equipment on the servo will rotate as much times as essential to drive the potentiometer (and hence the gearbox result shaft) into the position that the signal from the servo controller calls for.
Machine designers are increasingly turning to gearheads to take advantage of the most recent advances in servo motor technology. Essentially, a gearhead converts high-velocity, low-torque energy into low-speed, high-torque output. A servo engine provides highly accurate positioning of its output shaft. When these two gadgets are paired with one another, they enhance each other’s strengths, providing controlled motion that is precise, robust, and dependable.

Servo Gearboxes are robust! While there are high torque servos available that doesn’t indicate they can compare to the strain capacity of a Servo Gearbox. The small splined output shaft of a normal servo isn’t long enough, large enough or supported well enough to take care of some loads despite the fact that the torque numbers seem to be appropriate for the application form. A servo gearbox isolates the strain to the gearbox result shaft which is backed by a pair of ABEC-5 precision ball bearings. The external shaft can withstand severe loads in the axial and radial directions without transferring those forces to the servo. Subsequently, the servo runs more freely and is able to transfer more torque to the result shaft of the gearbox.