As servo technology has evolved-with manufacturers creating smaller, yet more powerful motors -gearheads have become increasingly essential companions in motion control. Finding the ideal pairing must take into account many engineering considerations.
• A servo engine running at low rpm operates inefficiently. Eddy currents are loops of electric current that are induced within the motor during procedure. The eddy currents actually produce a drag pressure within the 
electric motor and will have a larger negative effect on motor overall performance at lower rpms.
• An off-the-shelf motor’s parameters may not be ideally suited to run at a low rpm. When an application runs the aforementioned electric motor at 50 rpm, essentially it isn’t using most of its obtainable rpm. Because the voltage continuous (V/Krpm) of the motor is set for a higher rpm, the torque constant (Nm/amp)-which is directly linked to it-is lower than it requires to be. Consequently, the application needs more current to drive it than if the application had a motor specifically designed for 50 rpm. A gearhead’s ratio reduces the engine rpm, which explains why gearheads are sometimes 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 permit you to avoid the concerns
Servo Gearboxes provide freedom for how much rotation is achieved from a servo. Most hobby servos are limited to just beyond 180 examples of rotation. Most of the Servo Gearboxes utilize a patented exterior potentiometer to ensure that the rotation quantity is in addition to 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 necessary to drive the potentiometer (and therefore the gearbox result shaft) into the placement that the signal from the servo controller demands.
Machine designers are increasingly embracing gearheads to take benefit 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 engine provides extremely accurate positioning of its output shaft. When these two devices are paired with each other, they enhance each other’s strengths, providing controlled motion that is precise, robust, and reliable.
Servo Gearboxes are robust! While there are high torque servos on the market that doesn’t imply they are able to compare to the load capacity of a Servo Gearbox. The small splined output shaft of a normal servo isn’t lengthy enough, large enough or supported well enough to handle some loads despite the fact that the torque numbers seem to be appropriate for the application. A servo gearbox isolates the strain to the gearbox output shaft which is supported by a set of ABEC-5 precision ball bearings. The external shaft can withstand severe loads in the axial and radial directions without transferring those forces on to the servo. In turn, the servo runs more freely and is able to transfer more torque to the result shaft of the gearbox.