Formlabs Interview Question

What's backlash and how do you arrest it?

Interview Answers

Anonymous

Jun 17, 2019

it's the loss of position in an actuation/motion system when the moving element changes direction. It can be arrested by either taking all the slack out of the system(which is practically impossible), by using anti backlash nuts, sensor-based correction, etc

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Jul 17, 2020

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