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Re: Planetary gear sets
Posted to Educators Forum on 3/4/2006 3 Replies

Just remember that on systems with a ring gear or annulus driven output shaft and an input shaft driving the sun gears, the planetary gears are just idler gears. They play no part in the ratio at all. The ratio is between the sun gears and the ring gear/annulu... Login to read more.

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