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Old 08-26-2009, 12:25 AM   #31 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dcb View Post
Well, hook up enough golf cart motors and you will might have something. Do some series/parallel shifting on 'em. When they are all in series they get all the current your controller can give and are at max torque, when in parallel they get their fraction of the current but more volts and can spin faster. Poor mans EV shifting.
Hmmm, I'm frying my brain trying to see how two motors could work together. There's a Solectria van on eBay that uses two with belts:

Other Makes:eBay Motors (item 260464883145 end time Aug-28-09 18:43:29 PDT)

And I know that the hub I bought as a coupler was actually made to have a gear welded on it. Something like that might actually work..GM would be angry. Maybe I'll do it after I fry the current motor

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