Blog 10/10/18

This week we got a little more information from Mac Motors. Unfortunately, they didn't seem to understand our questions, so we weren't able to get all the information we felt we needed. However, they did tell us that the motors we're looking at don't have a planetary gear set. We aren't sure if they could implement a gearbox for us or give us a gearbox for the motor if we asked which led to concerns.

We need the planetary gearbox to give us the torque the system requires while keeping the RPM values within the values the motor is rated for. Because of this, I am looking at ways to fit a planetary gearbox to the motor, should we buy these motors from MacMotors. I was not able to think of a good enough way to do this with just a gearbox we can buy, as there aren't any with the specifications we want. There is the option of designing and manufacturing custom planetary gears, but that may take too long, because we want to get the motors as soon as possible. We may just go with another motor company, as Mac motors is not communicating with us and because of the issue with the torque and RPM values not being good for our purposes.

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