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News Release from: Reliance Precision Mechatronics | Subject: Reli-a-Flex coupling
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 24 May 2001
Precision couplings for state-of-the-art
lighting
Light and Sound Design designed the first ever stage lighting instrument based on Digital Light Processing (DLP) from Texas Instruments with mechanical components from Reliance Gear Co
When engineers at Light and Sound Design in Birmingham were working on their award winning design for the first ever stage lighting instrument based on Digital Light Processing (DLP) from Texas Instruments, they asked Reliance Gear Co of Huddersfield to supply top quality customised precision components for inclusion in the design Reliance engineers were delighted to introduce the Reli-a-Flex coupling to Light and Sound Design, believing that the product's qualities of compactness and torsional stiffness were exactly what was required for the demanding positional accuracy expected from the new stage light
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 17 Oct 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Although Light and Sound Design had been considering using normal spiral beam couplings in their prototypes, the Reli-a-Flex coupling's performance improvements of up to 16 times greater torsional stiffness, 12 times less transmission error and 12 times less bearing load impressed them so much that they immediately incorporated it into their design.
Reliance's involvement with the project also included supplying customised pulleys, again designed specifically to improve the positional accuracy of the new light.
Light and Sound Design's relationship with Reliance goes back over many years and is based on Reliance's ability to understand the needs of their engineers and to provide the quality and service they require.
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