Understanding Your Gear Drive Ratings Whitepaper

The power capacity of a gear drive is important to ensure successful operation of driven equipment with minimum downtime. Making sure that the unit is correct for the application can be a difficult task. Download the whitepaper to achieve a better understanding of your gear drive ratings.

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50 Ways to Reduce a Duty Cycle - Part 2

In the first part, we reviewed how to take a duty cycle or one block of a duty cycle and reduce it to a single torque and calculate the cycles required to have the same amount of fatigue damage. Since speed isn't directly part of the basic bearing load equation, that can be left to your discretion. A note of caution — speed is not irrelevant in reality where oil viscosity and film play a role.

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Power Transmission Technology Update May 23, 2017
[sponsored content] Understanding Your Gear Drive Ratings Whitepaper The power capacity of a gear drive is important to ensure successful operation of driven equipment with minimum downtime. Making sure that the unit is correct for the application can be a difficult task. Download the whitepaper to achieve a better understanding of your gear drive ratings. Read More
50 Ways to Reduce a Duty Cycle - Part 2 In the first part, we reviewed how to take a duty cycle or one block of a duty cycle and reduce it to a single torque and calculate the cycles required to have the same amount of fatigue damage. Since speed isn't directly part of the basic bearing load equation, that can be left to your discretion. A note of caution — speed is not irrelevant in reality where oil viscosity and film play a role. Read More
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