some background: http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?177,767087,784083#msg-784083
and the same question here: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/352661/
can anyone help? basically - and i really should have done this before going ahead... *sigh*... - when you have a pulley system is the amount of force on the belt less, equal, or greater, under the same *print-head* acceleration conditions, compared to a *non* pulley system?
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