As servo technology has evolved-with manufacturers creating smaller, yet better motors -gearheads have become increasingly essential partners in motion control. Locating the optimal pairing must take into account many engineering considerations.
• A servo motor running at low rpm operates inefficiently. Eddy currents are loops of electric current that are induced within the electric motor during operation. The eddy currents actually produce a drag pressure within the engine and will have a larger negative impact on motor performance at lower rpms.
• An off-the-shelf motor’s parameters might not be ideally suited to run at a low rpm. When an application runs the aforementioned motor at 50 rpm, essentially it isn’t using all of its available rpm. As the voltage constant (V/Krpm) of the engine is set for an increased rpm, the torque 
continuous (Nm/amp)-which is usually directly linked to it-can be lower than it requires to be. As a result, the application needs more current to operate a vehicle it than if the application had a motor particularly created for 50 rpm. A gearhead’s ratio reduces the motor rpm, which explains why gearheads are occasionally called gear reducers. Using a gearhead with a 40:1 ratio,
the electric 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 electric motor at the higher rpm will allow you to avoid the concerns
Servo Gearboxes provide freedom for just how much rotation is achieved from a servo. The majority of hobby servos are limited by just beyond 180 degrees of rotation. Most of the Servo Gearboxes utilize a patented external potentiometer so that the rotation quantity is independent of the equipment ratio installed 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 placement that the transmission from the servo controller demands.
Machine designers are increasingly turning to gearheads to take advantage of the most recent advances in servo electric motor technology. Essentially, a gearhead converts high-rate, low-torque energy into low-speed, high-torque result. A servo electric motor provides highly accurate positioning of its result shaft. When both of these products are paired with one another, they enhance each other’s strengths, offering controlled motion that is precise, robust, and reliable.
Servo Gearboxes are robust! While there are high torque servos in the marketplace that doesn’t suggest they can compare to the load capacity of a Servo Gearbox. The tiny splined result shaft of a regular servo isn’t lengthy enough, huge enough or supported well enough to take care of some loads even though the torque numbers look like suitable for the application form. A servo gearbox isolates the strain to the gearbox output shaft which is backed by a pair of ABEC-5 precision ball bearings. The exterior shaft can withstand extreme 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 output shaft of the gearbox.