With over 200,000 gearboxes already supplied to the market, Standel Dawman offer 4 different types of gearbox casing, each available with with 3 different types of internals.

Gearbox Casings:

Plastic 3-bolt fixing
Plastic Flange Mount
Aluminium 3-bolt fixing
Aluminium 4-bolt fixing

Casing choice mainly comes down to trolley design, but as the casing is mainly only a mounting system to allow the internal drive systems to flourish, the lighter, more cost-effective plastic casings have become the most popular units in recent years.

Internals:

Standard Drive – basic worm and gearwheel drive system, used along with clutch wheels to provide what is currently the most common Electric Golf Trolley drive combination on the market.

Differential – a very user-friendly set-up when it comes to trolley control. The split axle set-up allows for very easy steering as the trolley will “spin on the spot” allowing very easy steering anywhere on the course.

The differential gearbox is used along with solid drive wheels. This gives the gearbox the ability to brake downhill, and depending on the speed controller being used, this can help give the golfer ultimate speed control of the trolley. This is opposed to a clutch type trolley, which tends to run away from the user on steep hills.

Limited Slip Differential (LSD) – the LSD was developed as one of the few downsides of a pure differential trolley is that in a differential trolley, the power delivery from the motor will always take the path of least resistance. This means that when one of the rear wheels leaves the ground all of the power will go to this wheel, hence drive is lost to the trolley.

The LSD incorporates clutch plates within the unit, which in the scenario mentioned about, the LSD will allow “limited slip”, i.e. spinning of the wheel in the air, but it will send a percentage of drive to the wheel still in contact with the ground, ensuring that the trolley will continue in a forward motion.