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Conveyor belt speed reduction 2

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mech225

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Jan 11, 2004
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I need to calculate the pulley diameter to reduce the conveyor belt speed to 40m/min. It has been a long time since I worked with the calculations.

Description of set-up: Motor running at 1470rpm transmits power from a 145mm pulley to a larger pulley of diameter 630mm. from here a gearbox with a speed ratio of 13:1 transmits power to the conveyor pulley. Finally belt speed is read off instrumentation as 48m/min.

Please could someone help with the formulae and pulley diameter one needs to use?

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630*48/40=756

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Mech225
Alternatively change the motor pulley to 120mm
(40/48 x 145=120.8 mm)
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