Idler and Belt Turntables : improving and mods.

[anatech]

Hi Hiten,
No one can say that you aren't thinking imaginatively.

In the first post, what you have is an idler wheel with a very thin compliance section. Belts losing tension happens slowly over years in most cases, and a replacement belt isn't hard maintenance to keep up. Anyway, the fact that the belt is longer than the circumference of the idler doesn't really help with issues with idlers. In fact, you lose compliance with that idea whereas an idler wheel can flex deeper and maybe isolate the motor vibrations better than the thin belt section would allow you to.

Some of your ideas were very interesting, but you have to boil down the system you design so that you can see it for what it really is.

-Chris

 

[Hiten]

Thanks Chris.
Yes I understand ideas can be counterproductive. With regards to belts I was thinking more on the line of untreated (No electronic speed control) motors cogging etc. having effects on belts and thereafter affecting speed stability. Regards.