Time and again, you might have asked yourself what an AC gear motor is and what some of its functions and benefits are. Well, the answer is quite simple. It is an assembly of an AC motor and a gear train all in one housing. The main difference between this and the DC motor is that IT is powered by alternating current while the DC motor is powered by direct current. There are numerous advantages of using AC gear motors. One obvious advantage is that installation is quite simple since you don’t have to figure out how coupling between the motor and the gears will be done. All of that is taken care of by the manufacturer. What you only have to think of is how you will align it with your machine and couple its output to the input of your machine.
The other obvious advantage of using an AC gear motor is that you don’t have to convert the grid AC supply into DC supply when using the machine. You can connect it directly to your socket and you are good to go. As for DC motors, you have to use a transformer and a power converter to convert power from AC to DC hence incurring unnecessary costs. Adapters are also prone to failing from time to time hence making it quite expensive to maintain a DC gear motor.
Last but not least, you can be able to manipulate the torque and power output of your AC gear motor by coming up with different gear ratios. However, this needs some expertise in the engineering field. You simply need to dismantle the gearbox section of your gear motor and tamper with the arrangement of the gears. This way, you can easily change your AC gear motor from a torque multiplier to a torque reducer and vice versa.