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Planetary Gears - Independent Rotation

astraios

Aerospace
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Would anyone be able to provide some examples of a planetary gear system that enables independent rotation of either the i) ring gear (+planet gears) or ii) sun gear (+planet gears) from a single motor? As far as I'm aware for i) I can't lock the planet carrier since this requires the sun gear to rotate, but I could lock the sun gear and allow free rotation of the planet carrier + gears causing the ring gear to rotate. I am unsure what the sleeve mechanism around the main rod for the planet carrier would look like though. For ii) I imagine I could just use a clamp around the ring gear to prevent rotation and then just use the sun gear as normal.
 
Sturmey Archer 3 or 4 speed bicycle hub, any number of automatic gearboxes. From wiki

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op
tons of stuff on YouTube.
exactly what is the intent.
maybe two stage planetary gear set.
 
op
tons of stuff on YouTube.
exactly what is the intent.
maybe two stage planetary gear set.
I basically need to be able to change between configuration 1 and 2 of the gif GregLocock provided in the simplest way possible. With both 1 and 2 able to go in the reverse direction also.
 

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