What's the difference between normal gear and hybrid gears?

[Ting_Guo]

Some one says that hybrid gears give huge benefits to 1:2 drivetrain. We couldn’t find lots of information about hybrid gear? Can any one kindly explain?

[N0ah]

Hybrid gears are a combination of bevel and spur gears, allowing them to be used as one, the other, or both at the same time.

@Sidoti did a really good explanation here, including gifs, which are much better than words in this case.

New Products - February 2022

Oh yeah, and you definitely aren’t alone. Let me prove it to y’all. First off, let’s talk about these new ̶b̶e̶v̶e̶l̶ … ̶s̶p̶u̶r̶…err… hybrid gears. They aren’t quite spur gears, and they aren’t quite bevel gears. These are some sort of frankenstein between the two. Frankenstein wasn’t perfect, so let’s address the elephant in the room first. They are 3/4" of a pitch wide. So they won’t like being stuck between two beams that are one beam thickness apart. Gotta give these gears a little ex…

[technik3k]

@N0ah

really good explanation here, including gifs, which are much better than words in this case.

For a split second I thought you are referring to this gif

@Art_Dutra_IV

Another example of lower power VEX GO / IQ robots being more fault tolerant are the fact that we can make universal Hybrid Gears work at the GO / IQ scale.

Hybrid Gears are a combination spur gear and bevel gear that we first released in the new VEX GO kits. What makes these unique, is that you can mesh any size Hybrid Gear with any other Hybrid Gear in both spur and bevel use cases.

But, yes, @Sidoti did a great job explaining hybrid gears!

[Entropy]

I used hybrid gears to build a vertical motor drivetrain back in slapshot, which is a great use of them. Here is a video. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9DzZ6N2NNJo