Hello, I have a gearbox on the end of an electrical motor that is used to drive a chain/belt system in a manufacturing environment. On the gearbox, there is a small plastic gear with a slotted hole in it, that is used to spin a cable going to a mechanical gauge to measure gearbox speed. We vary the…

Measuring mechanical rotational speed in different ways?

JoeNova October 12, 2017, 8:45pm 9

We usually spin the gearbox at 4000 RPM, but it gets as high as 10000 on small-load production runs.

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