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No gear-set alone that can do that, because you need a storage element.



Could you go into what that means?


For intermittent motion to produce continuous motion, you need to store energy to have a supply of power for the lul when the input is not moving. Without energy storage, it is impossible to continue doing work on the output when the input is not moving. Does that make sense?


Definitely. Thanks.




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