Reduction ratio

Reduction ratio

With respect to gearboxes it is the relationship between the number of RPM's applied to the input shaft and the number of RPM's transmitted to the output shaft. Usually the output RPM is assigned the value of 1 and the input RPM is expressed in relation to that value.

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