As servo technology has evolved-with manufacturers producing smaller, yet more powerful motors -gearheads are becoming increasingly essential partners in motion control. Finding the ideal pairing must consider many engineering considerations.
• A servo electric motor working at low rpm operates inefficiently. Eddy currents are loops of electrical current that are induced within the engine during procedure. The eddy currents actually produce a drag power within the motor and will have a larger negative impact on motor overall performance at lower rpms.
• An off-the-shelf motor’s parameters might not be ideally suitable for run at a minimal rpm. When an application runs the aforementioned motor at 50 rpm, essentially it is not using all of its available rpm. As the voltage continuous (V/Krpm) of the electric motor is set for an increased rpm, the torque constant (Nm/amp)-which can be directly related to it-is lower than it needs to be. As a result, the application requirements more current to drive it than if the application form had a motor specifically designed for 50 rpm. A gearhead’s ratio reduces the motor rpm, which is why gearheads are sometimes called gear reducers. Using a gearhead with a 40:1 ratio,
the engine 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 engine at the higher rpm will allow you to avoid the concerns
Servo Gearboxes provide freedom for how much rotation is achieved from a servo. The majority of hobby servos are limited by just beyond 180 levels of rotation. Most of the Servo Gearboxes use a patented exterior potentiometer to ensure that the rotation amount is in addition to the gear ratio installed on the Servo Gearbox. In 
such case, the small gear on the servo will rotate as much times as essential to drive the potentiometer (and hence the gearbox output shaft) into the position 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 motor technology. Essentially, a gearhead converts high-rate, low-torque energy into low-speed, high-torque output. A servo motor provides extremely accurate positioning of its result shaft. When both of these gadgets are paired with one another, they promote each other’s strengths, offering controlled motion that’s precise, robust, and reliable.
Servo Gearboxes are robust! While there are high torque servos out there that doesn’t suggest they are able to compare to the strain capability of a Servo Gearbox. The small splined result shaft of a regular servo isn’t long enough, large enough or supported well enough to take care of some loads despite the fact that the torque numbers appear to be appropriate for the application. A servo gearbox isolates the strain to the gearbox result shaft which is supported 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 on to the servo. In turn, the servo runs more freely and can transfer more torque to the output shaft of the gearbox.