I've got a question regarding the tensioner system on a circle-s redrive unit. By the looks of things, the drives use a gates poly chain drive belt(cogged timing belt). For a tensioner, it looks like a pulley is pressed to the back side of the belt between the drive and driver sprockets, taking slack from the set-up. Please let me know if this is in-correct as I'm only going from pictures.
My question is- How durable is the belt in this set-up? And how well does it work overall? I guess two questions....
I ask because the manufacturer does not approve this type of tensioning system (pressure on the back of the belt), but if it works, I'm all about breaking rules.... I have built a similar belt set up as the Circle-S but currently have no tensioner, and obviously, I am anticipating issues.
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