Gearboxes & Reducers

Right angle gearboxes (worm and planetary) are rugged and built for 90° turns. Inline reducers (parallel shaft and planetary) are an ideal match for motors with high input speeds, or when gearmotor efficiency is important. Contact our technical sales staff for help determining which gearbox...

Epicyclic Gearing In an epicyclic or planetary gear train, several spur gears distributed evenly around the circumference run between a gear with internal teeth and a gear with external teeth on a concentric orbit. The circulation of the spur gear takes place in analogy to the orbiting of the...

The Raydafon brand of NEMA 34 standard planetary gearboxes is now available. The new IP86 series joins the company's recently released IP43 and IP57 series of NEMA 17 and 23 sizes. The IP series of true planetary gearboxes has hardened gears throughout. Single-piece output shaft and...

The planetary reduction drive is based on an classic but ingenious design. It is based on a system of ball bearings rolling between two surfaces while housed within a rotating bushing. The planetary reduction drive is often used to enhance the fine-tuning control of a variable capacitor. For...

The Gear Reducer is the perfect solution for servomotor applications such as packaging machines, gantries, injection molding machines, pick and place and linear slides. Offered in concentric shaft, rightangle solid shaft and right angle hollow shaft designs with modular adaptor flanges and...

To achieve high reduction ratios, a series of reduction gears are commonly placed inline, either plain small driver/large driven, or planetary. For a planetary gearbox to achieve 1000:1 reduction, four sets of gearboxes are needed (typical ratio per gearbox being 4 to 6). Driving the ring gear...