Re: Low Budget SRSG project

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 7/23/02 1:04:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:

Mark,

I think you'll have trouble getting enough torque, yes.  I tried
a larger shaded pole motor and barely got lockup with a rotor.
those motors are super-wimpy.

John


>
> Adding two brass bolts to the disk caused it 
> to run below 3600rpm. I think maybe the problem is that there still needs to 
> be a little more taken off the armature because I feel that this motor should
>
> be capable of spinning a rather small disk with small electrodes to sync. 
> Maybe it is a torque issue but there's only one way to find out.
>
> Mark
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