Phil Druker/ U of Idaho/ Department of English
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The pinion was designed with 15 teeth allowing for a reduction of 2.2. To calculate the gear design we used UTS Program 500 [1:39] in conjunction with the industry’s backlash model equation
(Eq. 1)
[3:215]
where dp is the diametric pitch, nteeth is the number of teeth, and dbacklash is the diametric backlash.
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