For years there has been a battle going on between suppliers of servo reducers. The central question is what is better, straight or helical gearing.? We were therefore surprised when we saw at the Hannover Messe 2013 that two competitors who had been selling straight toothing as the best option for years had suddenly switched to helical toothing! All those years of arguing why straight toothing is better were obviously put in a different light. What struck us even more is that one of those suppliers had literally copied the input side of Apex Dynamics. The clamping ring for the motor shaft is even a 1:1 copy! We are actually quite proud of this and our slogan “Apex Dynamics runs faster!” is once again appropriate here. So we also run faster when it comes to innovation.
Helical gear box
The A-series gearboxes from Apex Dynamics, the AB, AD, AE, AF, AL, and AN series, are all equipped with helical (spiral) gearing. We chose this at the time for the following reasons:
- Less vibrations
- Lower noise level
- No synchronisation errors
- Higher torques
This does not alter the fact that in certain cases we believe that a gear reducer with straight teeth is perfectly adequate and better suited to your needs. And that is why we supply the Apex Dynamics PA, PB, PE, PG, PN and PS with straight teeth.