Sunday, August 10, 2008

Will two motors really work?

Rationale.

I am keen to use sepex and it seems that that smaller 8hp sep ex motors running at 36v are much easier to come by than higher power units. If I have to use two of these to get the power, then it would seem to make sense to drive each front wheel from a motor (maybe I need a timing belt reductioBlogger: elowly - Create Postn to get correct speed).

Do I need two controllers? How do I syncronise them? If I have one controller, can I just connect the motors in series? Can I find a 72V sepex controller?

Otherwise, can I just use a front diff and a larger sepex - as in

http://www.electricmotorsport.com/store/ems_ev_parts_motors_sepex.php

here is a link with some comments on dual motors
http://www.mail-archive.com/ev@listproc.sjsu.edu/msg05516.html

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