Gear Ratio Efficiency Question

[yoraish]

Hi,

Right now im in the process of building another trial truck but some problems popped up. When I meshed 12t and 20t gears the sometimes click under pressure. So I wanted to get the same gear ratio with different gears. And to the point. Right now the 2nd gear of the gearbox is this:

And its working fine. But in order to make the 1st gear more rigid I need to change the 2nd one to this:

Will there be any difference in the efficiency of the gears?

Thanks!

P.s. Those images were generated using Sariel's Gear Ratio Calculator.

[Sariel]

I had no idea my calculator can be used to generate images :)

The second set of gears will be less efficient when set to higher gear, because you use gear acceleration and then reduction. But this will only occur at higher gear, the lower gear should be even more efficient than before (double bevel gears are generally better than 16t gears), so I'd say the change pays off.

[yoraish]

I had no idea my calculator can be used to generate images :)

The second set of gears will be less efficient when set to higher gear, because you use gear acceleration and then reduction. But this will only occur at higher gear, the lower gear should be even more efficient than before (double bevel gears are generally better than 16t gears), so I'd say the change pays off.

Thanks!

But did you understand that the first gear (after the chane/modification) will be so:

1:8.337 ratio.

And yeah the gear ratio calculator has many hidden abilities!

[DLuders]

@ yoraish: Nico71 also made the fine "TTools" software for Trial Trucks.