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Originally Posted by Cyruscosmo
D Damn E*clips! I feels like I been schooled! 
But that is a good thing, as I said I don't know electric motors the way I know ICE's. 
Ok so I understand a few more things now. Why the little high revving AC motors use a lot of reduction gears like little gas turbines and why the big DC's don't. I had not thought about this until I read your post but when we started brainstorming the transmissions the only motors we had in mind were the big DC's.
My primary concern was reducing the wire sizes and amps needed to get a vehicle going in a timely manner without resorting to drastic measures like 2000amp controllers, huge cables, more batteries or stacking two 11 inch motors. Those things are not light! So the thought was a 9inch with a couple gears to help it along a bit.
I have a couple 9 inch motors here and a few boxes of C4 parts all I need is a case for those parts and I can give it a go. That will come next summer when I finish the forge and start making ingots.
So I imagine you know what the term "BLDC out-runner" is yes? I had this thought of building an 11 inch out-runner. My reasoning was to do away with the transmission all together only I was going the larger diameter low RPM more torque rout instead of the smaller diameter high RPM gear reduction rout.
What are your thoughts?
Cyruscosmo |
Cyruscosmo,
This has been bugging me all day. - I felt like I got into "argument mode" and I hate that about myself.
We all have different backgrounds, talents, etc. all of which can be very helpful. Your knowledge and experience as a "gear head" is very valuable; and I truly respect your input around here. Working with Dave Cloud is excellent real-world experience and having him as a neighbor must be really fun!
I need to learn how to be more accepting of other ideas. There's a lot I can learn and hopefully folks will actually enjoy working on these projects.
So, please accept my apologies for the reply - it would be so much better to encourage folks and learn together.
Yes, I would like to help and attempt to answer your questions - I just need to sit and figure out how to encourage questions.
- e*clipse