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News Release from: Bodine Electric Company | Subject: Hollow-shaft gearmotors
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 02 February 2005
Gearmotors need no expensive shaft
couplings
The gearmotors' interface eliminates expensive shaft couplings and mounting hardware that can be unsafe, bulky and present alignment issues.
Bodine Electric has developed a new hollow-shaft, right-angle AC, DC and BLDC gearmotor line The hollow shaft design optimises mountings, saving on assembly labour and reducing the number of component parts
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 8 May 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The gearmotor's hollow output shaft can be connected directly to the driven load.
This interface eliminates expensive shaft couplings and mounting hardware that can be unsafe, bulky, and present alignment issues.
Eliminating maintenance inherent with chains and sprockets is an added bonus.
Hollow shaft gearmotor solutions include left- or right-hand face or flange mounts, based on individual requirements.
With continuous output torques from 0.6 to 65Nm and gear ratios from 5:1 to 3600:1, Bodine hollow shaft right angle gearmotors offer output speeds from less than 1 to over 500rev/min.
The hollow bore size depends on the gearmotor used, but is typically from 12.7 to 25.4mm.
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