Gear Motor Sizes

If your motor has a gearhead, then you will need to look here to find out about gears, gearheads and gear motors. You can learn what each of these are, and how they function to make your motor work like magic.

A gearhead motor is one that takes the output and changes it to a rated output speed. The gearhead is a piece of a gearmotor that does the change over to the rated output speed.

Many motor types use gears to transfer one motion into a large number of tasks. Gears are used to turn pulleys or to move wheels, but it can be hard to change it from a circular motion to a straight motion.