DESCRIPTION:

Gear Train is any combination of gear wheels by which motion is transmitted from one shaft to another shaft. In epicyclic gear trains, the axes of shafts on which the gears are mounted may move relative to a fixed axis. It is a motorized unit consisting of a SUN gear mounted on input shaft. Planet gears meshes with the annular gear. These planet gears are mounted on a common arm to which output shaft is fitted. Loading arrangement is provided for loading the system and to measure holding torque.

The present set-up has a facility to interface the system with computer which enables to log the experimental data using computer. The educational software and data-logging package has been developed for unit. The software environment base is of Lab view of NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS, USA. This software is compatible to interfacing unit designed by “Lab smith”. This software package provides a comprehensive educational software environment within which the investigations can be performed. This software is capable to tabulate the sample readings according to the requirement of experiment under study and results obtained can be compared. The real time data acquisition can be done by interfacing the set-up with computer using software. Software allows the user to have control on data logging, printing the stored data, preparing spread sheets in Excel etc

EXPERIMENTATION:

• To measure epicyclic gear ratio between input shaft and output shaft (Actual and Theoretical).
• To measure input torque, holding torque and output torque.

UTILITIES REQUIRED:

• Electricity Supply: 220 V AC, Single Phase, 0.5 kW.
• Floor Area : 2m x 1m.
• Computer System : Pentium IV with DVD Drive, Windows XP, MS-Office XP version pre-loaded.
• One USB slot required in PC for DATA ACQUISITION CARD. 

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