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Originally Posted by Daox
For the record I'd like to state that gears are definitely more efficient than belts. I used to work for a manufacturer of gearboxes in the engineering department. Calculated losses for our gears were ~.5% per gear set.
From wikipedia on belts:
While its not a world of difference I just wanted to clarify things.  |
Hypoid gear I guess is one having issues, 85-90% efficiency I believe?
With belts you would not need that as you can do differential effect by changing ratio of belt pulleys.
Then you have to add up all the gears which makes that 15-25% drivetrain loss, where with belts you probably could get away with less?
Not quite sure about this of course, but it is something that I have been thinking and which might give something, but it would require rather good facilities to actually make such gearing.