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	Pelton Wheel Driven Single Drum Winch Bendigo Mining Museum,, BENDIGO VIC 3550 - Property No B5270	The designer has very elegantly solved the problem of coupling the pelton wheel (essentially a low torque high speed uni-directional device) to the winch drum (a bi-directional divice requiring high torque at low speeds) by means of epicyclic gearing. This maintains the respective input and output shafts parallel and allows the housing to be extremely compact. The arrangement also has the advantage that the winch may be operated with the wheel locked or the wheel may be run up to ... more	B5270	State

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Pelton Wheel Driven Single Drum Winch

Bendigo Mining Museum,, BENDIGO VIC 3550 - Property No B5270

The designer has very elegantly solved the problem of coupling the pelton wheel (essentially a low torque high speed uni-directional device) to the winch drum (a bi-directional divice requiring high torque at low speeds) by means of epicyclic gearing. This maintains the respective input and output shafts parallel and allows the housing to be extremely compact. The arrangement also has the advantage that the winch may be operated with the wheel locked or the wheel may be run up to ... more

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