As servo technology has evolved-with manufacturers creating smaller, yet better motors -gearheads have become increasingly essential companions in motion control. Locating the optimal pairing must take into account many engineering considerations.
• A servo electric motor operating at low rpm operates inefficiently. Eddy currents are loops of electric current that are induced within the electric motor during operation. The eddy currents in fact produce a drag drive within the motor and will have a greater negative effect on motor overall performance at lower rpms.
• An off-the-shelf motor’s parameters may not be ideally suitable for run at a low rpm. When an application runs the aforementioned engine at 50 rpm, essentially it is not using most of its obtainable rpm. Because the voltage continuous (V/Krpm) of the engine is set for an increased rpm, the torque continuous (Nm/amp)-which is certainly directly linked to it-is usually 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 specifically made for 50 rpm. A gearhead’s ratio reduces the motor rpm, which explains why gearheads are sometimes called gear reducers. Utilizing 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 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. The majority of hobby servos are limited by just beyond 180 levels of rotation. Many of the Servo Gearboxes use a patented exterior potentiometer to ensure that the rotation quantity is independent of the equipment ratio installed on the Servo Gearbox. In this kind of case, the small gear on the servo will rotate as many times as essential to drive the potentiometer (and therefore the gearbox output shaft) into the placement that the transmission from the servo controller calls for.
Machine designers are increasingly turning to gearheads to take benefit of the latest advances in servo engine technology. Essentially, a gearhead converts high-acceleration, low-torque energy into low-speed, high-torque output. A servo motor provides highly 
accurate positioning of its result shaft. When these two gadgets are paired with one another, they promote each other’s strengths, providing controlled motion that’s precise, robust, and dependable.
Servo Gearboxes are robust! While there are high torque servos in the marketplace that doesn’t indicate they can compare to the load capability of a Servo Gearbox. The small splined output shaft of a regular servo isn’t lengthy enough, large enough or supported sufficiently to take care of some loads despite the fact that the torque numbers appear to be suitable for the application. A servo gearbox isolates the load to the gearbox result shaft which is backed by a pair of ABEC-5 precision ball bearings. The external shaft can withstand extreme loads in the axial and radial directions without transferring those forces on to the servo. Subsequently, the servo operates more freely and is able to transfer more torque to the result shaft of the gearbox.