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Originally Posted by captainslug
I'm keeping my eye on free craigslist listings for treadmills (working perfectly or not). The vast majority of them are powered by Constant Duty 1.5 to 3 HP brushed motors running anywhere from 90VDC to 115VDC. Brushed motors are okay with undervolting, but not very happy with being overvolted.
They will be roughly the right size and I will have to gear them down a bit, but they're much closer to what I need than any of the other motors I've found.
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You too, huh? I've been looking in the free section forever, and always seem to miss the occasional one that pops up. They go like hotcakes! Even the ones that don't work!
I feel like a couple of those motors (matched) would be perfect for a mid-size road legal trike.
Hell, they could even be not matched, one stronger than the other, and I could just run them at the same voltage, one to cruise, both to GO!!!!.
(Ok, so it wouldn't really GO!!!!, but it would still help out if I needed to accelerate quickly.)
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