Planetary Gearbox

Primary designer of a high gear ratio three stage planetary gearbox used on a distributed ganged drivetrain for a solar tracker application. Meeting difficult performance and cost targets while ensuring long-term reliability

Development Tasks

• High level cost and performance optimization

• Detailed load source and efficiency analysis for component sizing and motor specification

• Gear calculations and material selection

• Tolerance stack analysis

• Design for high volume manufacturing & reliability

• Design for corrosion protection

• Prototyping and design verifications

• Dynamometer and accelerated lifecycle test fixture design

• FMEA, QRTP

• Manufacture collaboration

• Failure root causes analysis and remediation

• Manufacturing Quality Testing

• Environment Exposure Testing

• Dyno Testing

• Accelerated Lifecycle Testing

• Automated Test Fixtures using Labview, Python