Vance Jaqua wrote:

I probably should stay out of this since I have only
been glancing at it from time to time BUT the contact
pitch line force is set by the diameter of the sun
gear, and that same force (less some friction) is
handed around the total gear set. Under the laws of
adversity :-) the loads are not evenly split between
the planets - so 3 are generally less than 3 times as
strong as 1.(This is why the whiffle tree was
invented, to catch the horse that was goofing off) and
the planet system does not have full "whiffle tree"
characteritics. Still easily the strongest system for
it's size - Vance

 
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