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Old 01-05-2009, 01:46 PM   #119 (permalink)
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That's amazing! Those look like regular anderson connectors that I have on my bike! Also, I've been thinking still, and I should have said higher torque at 0 rpm and slower top rpm, or lower torque at 0 rpm and higher top rpm.

And higher rpm can be cut in half with gears, doubling the torque so there is really no drawback to higher voltage! Finally the Peukert value works in our favor! Maybe if we do some sort of IGBT based 1200v controller, we can power it with calculator batteries. 1200 in series, drawing 8 amps or so. hehe. Well, maybe NiMH D batteries.
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