Gear Box
Posted by annina | Filed under DiscoNews, DiscoTech
One tutorial warns that anyone attempting to make a gear box must be either poor or bored. I disagree. I found some gears at Walt’s Hobby. They were not totally cheap but they work well together. So. The result is a new, transparent gear box for Discotrope! The gear ratio slows down the ball. Our previous gear box was the gear box that came with the disco ball. I had adapted it to the low current motor. But it was still a bit fast. Besides slowing down the ball, the new gear box also gives our low current motor some more torque (if only very, very little more) so that it can turn the disco ball in lower light than the previous gear box could.
