{"id":591,"date":"2016-12-25T05:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T05:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=591"},"modified":"2021-06-11T02:48:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T02:48:45","slug":"free-tech-tips-belt-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Free Tech Tips &#8211; belt drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11IMG_20191125_122534.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3112\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11IMG_20191125_122534-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11IMG_20191125_122534-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11IMG_20191125_122534-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11IMG_20191125_122534-675x900.jpg 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11IMG_20191125_122534-480x640.jpg 480w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11IMG_20191125_122534.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Belt drive has a simpler design due to the use of less gears along the drive chain, and it keeps the weight down for the same reason. It tends to run quieter as well.<\/p>\n<p>However, the belt is more subject to wear and tear (it will start weakening and stretching over time) especially upon frequent hard accelerations and you will need to regularly adjust its tension just to prevent it from skipping.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ttIMG_20191209_095240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3114\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ttIMG_20191209_095240-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ttIMG_20191209_095240-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ttIMG_20191209_095240-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ttIMG_20191209_095240-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ttIMG_20191209_095240-1246x935.jpg 1246w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ttIMG_20191209_095240-675x506.jpg 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ttIMG_20191209_095240-480x360.jpg 480w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ttIMG_20191209_095240.jpg 1373w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another thing &#8211; it is widely believed that belt drive car often induces drag (i.e. belt drag), which can make the drive system quite inefficient.<\/p>\n<p>The photo below shows a 3Racing XI Sport NU.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Untitled-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2307\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Untitled-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Untitled-1.png 915w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Untitled-1-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Untitled-1-768x576.png 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Untitled-1-675x506.png 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Untitled-1-480x360.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belt drive has a simpler design due to the use of less gears along the drive chain, and it keeps the weight down for the same reason. It tends to run quieter as well. However, the belt is more subject to wear and tear (it will start weakening and stretching over time) especially upon frequent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}