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Old 12-30-2009, 04:00 AM   #77 (permalink)
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I like the idea of an underdrive pulley slowing the whole works down, but that is tempered by the knowledge that the tighter you bend chains/belts on small sprockets/pullies, the less efficient the power transfer system becomes. So then you must decide if the gains from slowing the driven stuff down overcome the loss from bending that belt tighter. They probably do, but still it sux to ADD inefficiency to get efficiency
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