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Re: ARSG Motors (fwd)



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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:57:55 -0700
From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ARSG Motors (fwd)

<>I just used a 12 DC motor from a radio controlled car. I controlled its
>  speed with a variable DC supply. Was fine for my 1KVA system. Why do
>  these
>  things need to be so big?

Because people run power levels greater than 1KVA?"

    No - just because bigger diameter wheels have lots more wind 
friction - for a fixed speed varies as greater than the cube of the 
diameter.  8" diameter would have more than 8 times the drag of a 4" one. 

Ed