Torque in Practice

[TechnicBrickPower]

Hi all, here's a video I did where I use a 10 level torque gadget I created to run some torque experiments to help improve my automatic gearbox designs. Hope you find it interesting.

 

[JintaiZ]

Very interesting.

But how well does it work in MOCs?

[Mechbuilds]

Thank you for doing these experiments!

[2GodBDGlory]

You are developing lots of theoretical and practical knowledge about autos! I hope it allows you to make some refined practical designs. (I gave up on smooth, multi-speed mechanical autos in favor of electronically controlled ones, using PU)

[Horologist]

I love your work on automatic gearboxes. I usually just use a stepless automatic transmission like the one detailed here. 

[TechnicBrickPower]

On 11/2/2020 at 11:18 AM, Horologist said:

I love your work on automatic gearboxes. I usually just use a stepless automatic transmission like the one detailed here. 

Hi Horologist. Thanks for sending that link! That's an awesome looking device by Nico71 - I think I am going to try to build it...love the tachometers - very clever.

[Bluehose]

Hello, what you bring and the way you bring it is very new and clever !

This video is perfect !

However, the content may be difficult to follow to whom is not very good with english, which should be improved by just a short list of the objectives of your video shown in the topic on eurobrick or as summary at the begin of the video.

[Bartybum]

Ayyy my suspicions were right - gearboxes should always operate at high speed and low torque

[2GodBDGlory]

10 hours ago, Bartybum said:

Ayyy my suspicions were right - gearboxes should always operate at high speed and low torque

Yes, this is the ideal, I think, and not only because of shift points; even if you are controlling gears manually, low torque means that the driving rings are far less likely to pop out of a well-reinforced structure. Of course, in larger gearboxes, you may need quite a bit of torque at the input simply to rotate all the dead gears.