{"id":71,"date":"2009-11-13T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2009-12-05T00:46:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T05:46:16","slug":"pendulum-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/pendulum-redesign\/","title":{"rendered":"Pendulum redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a few calculations, and the bearing loads on the encoder from the swinging pendulum are going to exceed the maximum loads specified for the encoder.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to destroy the encoder, so I decided to redesign the cart.\u00a0 I added a bracket on top of the cart that extends out beyond the gear.\u00a0 The encoder will be mounted on this bracket, and the pendulum will be almost flush to the bracket.\u00a0 This will minimize the loads on the encoder shaft.\u00a0 Time for some more cutting and drilling, I guess.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Inv-Pendulum-v2.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11 \" title=\"Inverted Pendulum v2\" src=\"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Inv-Pendulum-v2.gif\" alt=\"Inverted Pendulum Design v2 (pdf)\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Inv-Pendulum-v2.gif 600w, https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Inv-Pendulum-v2-300x75.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inverted Pendulum Design v2 (pdf)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a few calculations, and the bearing loads on the encoder from the swinging pendulum are going to exceed the maximum loads specified for the encoder.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to destroy the encoder, so I decided to redesign the cart.\u00a0 I added a bracket on top of the cart that extends out beyond the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}