Gears & Gearboxes

Goal: Learn the fundamentals and applications of gears and gearboxes

Here's a diagram of a gear:

Basics

Please go through the following resources in order:

1. Watch this ​Gear Introduction Video
2. Go through this presentation from FRC Team 5256: ​Gears and Gearboxes
3. Watch this video on ​Simple Gear System Calculations

Advanced

If you're interested, you can check out these videos from Engineers Academy:

• ​Idler Gears
• ​Compound Gears
• ​Planetary Gearing

Gears and CAD

To learn how to properly CAD gear systems on Onshape from Team 6995, check out this ​video

VersaPlanetary Gearbox

When it comes many FRC Legal motors, we usually need less speed and more torque to make use of them on the robot. For ​VEX motors, we use the ​VersaPlanetary Gearbox.

To assemble the gearbox, use the ​VersaPlanetary User’s Guide. You can watch a quick tutorial from FRC Team 4327 ​here.