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Old 08-17-2012, 11:09 AM   #31 (permalink)
gone-ot
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Originally Posted by Otto View Post
1. Wouldn't it work even better to make the wheel into the motor? (i.e., put the permanent magnets on the wheel as close to the rim as possible, further from axis of rotation, for more torque.) This would be like those stereo LP record players where the turntable is the motor.
...another example are the pancake-motors in harddisk drives, ie: "rotational" stepper motors.


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