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Step 6Find a good gear motor

Find a good gear motor

In order to turn a heaping pile of compost it takes a lot of torque, therefore a gear motor is used to convert the low torque the turbine provides to high torque at low speeds. So I went to Astro 2 in Melbourne, Florida, a local surplus store and bought a gear motor for 10 bucks. It has a gear ration 1250:1 so it should provide lots of torque.

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I'm a senior at Florida Tech studying Ocean Engineering (making wave and wind generators at sea). I'm into electronics, chemistry, all the sciences, alternative energy, welded steel art and lots more...