Gears are widely used in numerous industrial applications as well as household appliances. However, a gear reducer is a highly useful piece of equipment that proves to be essential in applications that we use in our daily lives.
From being used in cars to helping generate electricity in windmills, a gear reducer is incredibly vital to our living.
Gear reduction refers to the process of reducing gear speed to maximize torque or minimizing torque to maximize speed. The input speed of a gear can be adjusted to produce a slower output speed while maintaining the same output torque.
The incoming torque from the wheels are transferred to the rotating gears where it can be changed. Normally, the number of gears used in a gear reducer assembly or a reduction gear box is dependent on the speed requirement of a certain application.
The application of a gear reducer in machinery can either be simple or complex. For a ship with high speed turbines to achieve high efficiency, the ship’s steam turbine must operate at a high RPM range while the propeller should work at a relatively low RPM range. This results in gear reduction to change the high speed of a steam turbine into the low speed required by the propeller.
A gear reducer comes in two major types: single reduction and a double reduction gear.
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