Recent content by Frikiflax

I have been working on a Heliostat mount design in Inventor. Its still a draft. I recalculated the necessary accuracy and realized the best angular resolution would be 0.01º so worm gears would be the most robust and compact gear solution at a 1:180 ratio. Another cool thing about this type of...

Thanks a lot for your questions, they helped me clear the picture. I haven`t designed the structure yet(besides the schematics I showed above). The only constraint regarding motor placement is that I think it would be better to have both motors near the center of the machine rather than on the...

Hi Folks! I'm new here and need your help. I`m in the process of designing an alt azimuth mount for a Heliostat. For those of you who don't know a Heliostat is a mechanism that allows a mirror to rotate around the vertical axis(horizon) and horizontal axis(altitude). It is(usually) placed...