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Originally Posted by Frank Lee

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

The belt radius could be overcome by increasing the diameter of both pulleys, but this exacerbates the issue by adding angular momentum and increased rotating mass.

Darn it all.

Well, maybe if you replaced them with bigger aluminum pieces with a lower turns ratio, you could defeat both issues, but then there is still the angular momentum issue caused by the larger radius of the pulleys. Darn Darn Darn!