What are the benefits of gear ratios?

Benefits. The benefits of knowing the gear ratio is that you can use that to your mechanical advantage. There is a trade-off between speed and torque, which is rotational power. When the gear ratio is 1:1, the amount of torque is the same, and the speed is the same.

What is lower gear ratio?

Low ratio gears are gears where the pinion gear (attached to the motor) has fewer teeth than the ring gear (the gear it turns). So if the pinion gear has 10 teeth and the ring gear has 30 teeth, the ratio is 1:3. The pinion gear has to spin three times to make the ring gear spin once.

Why are lower gears stronger?

Within the capability limits of the engine, shifting into a lower gear allows the engine to turn faster, allowing it to produce more power which the transmission converts into greater output torque for a given wheel speed.

What gear ratio is considered high?

High Ratio. High ratio gears are the opposite; the pinion has more teeth than the ring gear. So if the ring gear has five teeth while the pinion has 10, the ratio is now 2:1. For every one time the pinion spins, the ring gear spins twice to keep up, which is good for speed but not power.

What gear ratio should I get?

The most common reel on the market has a 6.4:1 gear ratio. This will allow you to work both fast moving presentations as well as slow. However, for certain techniques and applications, a very high or low gear ratio will often work best. For instance, burning a spinnerbait or buzzbait is best done with a 7.1:1 reel.

A lower (numerically higher) gear ratio, such as 3.55:1 to 4.10:1, provides more low-speed wheel torque, which means it takes less throttle to get the vehicle and the load it’s carrying or towing moving.

What is low gear and high gear in cars?

A high numerical gear ratio is called a low gear or low rear end, and vice versa. Low gears give fast acceleration, high gears give better cruising. A smaller engine will need a lower rear end to give adequate acceleration. A more powerful engine can use a higher rear end to give relaxed cruising and a higher top speed.