VEX High Reduction Gearbox

[GUYrobo2]

Thus we have the beginnings of a Vex clock.

[YTBYlover]

If you spined the small wheel, I bet the big wheel would spin faster then the speed of light!

[megadoomer44]

i could use that to life my fat sis off the couch

[shurtugal3010]

lol dude try spinning the small wheel

[jardok01]

will never can move the small wheell with the hand lol

[dluu13]

spin the small wheel!!!!!!!

[eno315]

good job, thanks for including the trivia. Applying math to something real is great for making learning more fun.

[nelsnelson]

Does that mean that if you got the small wheel turning, that the large wheel would start to spin out of control pretty quickly? Or at least, spin very rapidly relative tot he small wheel?

[chilloutdocdoc]

you would need an insane amount of torque to make the small wheel turn, assuming a 100% efficiency, it would be 1/4 Billion times the torque required to move the larger wheel

[nelsnelson]

What if you got each gear moving at a high rate of speed starting with the largest gear, and moving down the series of gears until you were moving the smallest gear? Would the cumulative momentum held by each larger gear be enough to eventually allow you to move the smaller gear?

[DeagleBeagle]

lol nice