Questions tagged [motors]
Questions regarding motors. All types of motors, their gearboxes, how to drive an electrical motor etc.
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Quick return mechanism for spring-loaded screw
I am looking for a way to convert rotary motion to linear, but it should take less energy to get back to initial position than when going from initial position to the end position.
Specifically, a ...
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Is there any side effect to soft start an AC motor?
I have a ground to water heat pump for my home heating/cooling (scroll compressor). The 3-phase 15kW-peak motor can be soft started but this option is off by default.
I'm aware of all the positive ...
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How can I map a global spherical position of a central normal vector to the rotation of 2 perpendicular motors?
I have a machine that rotates two concentric frames. The outer frame has a motor that rotates it relative to the global y-axis, and the inner frame has a motor that rotates it about the outer frame's ...
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PMDC Motor Characteristic Graph
I am trying create a graph similar to as shown below. However, I am confused as to how the torque is related to the characteristics.
The graph that is to be replicated for certain parameters:
The ...
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Is having a keyway in aluminium for 30Nm a bad idea?
I'm designing an aluminium shaft hub for a 16mm keyed shaft with a maximum torque of 30Nm. However, stress analysis tells me that the keyway can suffer too much stress:
If my understanding is correct,...
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Etymology of the term "journal bearing"
Typically the word "journal" refers to a collection of written records, experiences, or transactions. However, there is a common type of bearing known as a sleeve bearing, radial bearing, or journal ...
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Rotating four cylinders with one motor/actuator
I have a setup with 4 cylinders placed next to each other in following configuration. The cylinders are made of .2mm stainless steel. I would ideally want to rotate them along their axis using a ...
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A round, plastic pinion in a lock?
I'm looking at a teardown of a Masterlock. The guts look like this
What's strange to me is the black, plastic pinion that appears to be smooth and a strangely shaped cam:
Here's the cam magnified:
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Upgrading to a brushless motor
I have a mini-lathe with a 500W 3/4 HP variable speed motor, that is run by a controller at two different gearings. However, even at the LOW gearing I find the torque to be a little inadequate.
Is it ...
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Torque Required From Motor For a Project
The device I am building is responsible for supporting 200 lbs and is required to accelerate 10 feet per second. The device will have two 8 inch diameter wheels. I have worked out what I believe to be ...
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Calculation for Motor Selection
I need help with the selection of a motor and a motor driver
I need to spin a 700g (65mm radius) round ball at 35,000 RPM. I need to bring it up to speed slowly, so I also need a motor driver/speed ...
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how much power is needed to move a linear axis
Ι need help calculating the power usage for a linear axis motor. it must move up and down at a maximum speed of 0.5 m/s a load of 50 kg
What I did so far:
The load (i.e. weight) acting on the motor ...
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Advice on spring launcher project
I found an ingenious design of a spring ball launcher on grabcad and I'm interested in adapting it to accelerate a $43.7 \mathrm{~mm}$ diameter, $45 \mathrm{~g}$ golf ball enough to reach $65.5 \...
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Overcurrent protection, limit for nominal current or stall?
Background: I'm currently working on a robotics design that will drill through soil.
I have selected a 48V motor who's nominal current is 3.17A and has a stall current of 42A. I will be driving the ...
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How can I model a hysteresis curve from data?
I have the task of modeling the current to torque mapping for a given motor. I have an experimental set up where I can retrieve current, torque pairs.
Now my initial approach was to model the ...
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clockwork motor output in joules formula
I'm trying to understand the output of clockwork coils in joules or watts for different coils. You know the pullback car or windup pocket watch mechanism. I have heard it also called power in the ...
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How to calculate torque requirement for vehicle with Mecanum wheels?
What are the changes specific to mecanum wheels when calculating torque requirements for a vehicle. I have the data for the vehicles mass, top speed and top acceleration.
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How do I calculate the velocity of the piston?
I have a system with a motor connected to the trapezoidal lead screw. The lead screw is connected to the tube which is connected to the piston. The piston has to pump 1000cc oil against a pressure of ...
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Mechanical engineering, Please help me finding the torque and answering other doubts too
Below I attached two BLDC motor commonly used for skate boards, I am confused with the calculation of stall torque for these two motors,What i need to know,
What is the maximum weight lifting ...
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Angular Velocity of motor shaft as function of Angular Position
I have a set of shafts that need to be rotated at a high frequency (~1000 RPM) but not at a constant speed. That is to say, the angular velocity of the shaft needs to be a periodic function of the ...
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Servo drive gear placement relative to the body
Is there a universal rule for servo drive gear placement?
I'm planning to use this servo for a robotics project, but I need to know exactly where the drive gear is located relative to the body. The ...
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Standard name for "retargeting" behaviour in motor controller
Over the years I've encountered a number of motor controllers (e.g., controllers in the NI Motion series) that incorporate what I usually refer to as "retargeting" behavior.
Specifically, if the ...
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How do I calculate the best mass for the highest linear speed?
I have a motor whose specifications say that its torque is 190g*cm. If I have the formula for the mass of the wheel vs radius, is there any way I can find the radius to get the best linear speed?
The ...
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How are small refrigerator compressors started?
Small refrigerator compressors in the US generally all have exactly the same design and I am trying to understand their starting mechanism better. How exactly does it work?
What I generally ...
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Validation of transfer function
I have developed a second order transfer function model for a permanent magnet dc motor in terms of speed and voltage. I had performed open loop no load experiments on the dc motor and derived the ...
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Examples of uses of different voltages as seen on motor nameplate
The electric motor nameplate (pictured) has a variety of different voltage configurations which are listed. I understand that the motor can be configured to run on different voltages by changing the ...
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How do I wire up this Single Phase AC Motor? (Wye Arrangement)
The no-volt-release switch stopped latching on my single-phase planer thicknesser. The motor is under 1.1kw (1.5hp) and I understood that I would be able to drop in a generic switch.
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Why does an electric motor, of 800 kW at 400 V, have 7 connectors for power cables?
I found a Vybo electric motor and noticed that it has seven connectors for power cables.
I also found a Variable Speed Drive, Altivar Process ATV900, System ATV960, 800/630 kW, 400 V and its datasheet ...
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Electromagnetism - DC Motor Design Question - EMF/BACK EMF
I'm not gonna lie - I don't have enough knowledge about EMF and Back EMF so I need you guys , my friend will soon build a DC motor for me but I currently have no idea what design will produce high ...
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Equations of motion in matrix form and energy consumption
I am working on Lagrangian derived high-dimensional motion equations for a robot in matrix form. The structure of such an equation is known:
$M(q)\ddot{q}+C(q,\dot{q})\dot{q}+G(q)=0$
In here, $M(q)$, $...
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How to design an outrunner BLDC motor
I've difficulties to find a good documentation or a book to how to design an outrunner BLDC motor. My propose is, defined RPM and approximative kW and some other parameters, which are calculation ...
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What are some techniques for improving stabilization given a mechanical time constant?
Problem: I have a self-stabilizing system that utilizes an intertial measurement unit (IMU) attached to the hull of a vessel. The system self stabilizes by performing matrix rotations based on the ...
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VFD or soft start to minimize power consumption on starting a motor?
I want to use the smallest generator possible to run a standard three-phase AC well pump. According to this website and others, it is advisable to use a generator capable of 3x the running kVA if the ...
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Building a custom indirect actuator, any thoughts?
I’m trying to create a custom indirect actuator, that is controlled by a microcontroller, for a custom robotics project.
I have selected motor and gears (according to Fd = W = T2*pi) so that the ...
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Motor part winding start
I have a BITZER compressor type 4GE-23Y-40P, with a part winding start option
Nennspannung = nominal voltage = 380-420
Frequ = frequency = 50
Betr. strom = maximal operating current = 43.9
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Why are the synchronous reluctance motors not self-starting?
I have been studying synchronous reluctance motor since a month. I am curious to know why is this motor not self starting?
If used with an inverter, this motor can be made self-starting. Or by adding ...
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How much torque is needed to mix melted marshmallow with rice krispie?
I am designing a robot to make rice krispie treats!
More specifically, I want to use a fork to mix the melted marshmallow with rice krispie. I am currently specing out the motor, and since marshmallow+...
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Torque Required for a stepper motor to rotate a socket wrench ratchet around an axis point
I'm trying to build a kinetic machine that rotates socket ratchet tools (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_wrench) to make a bunch of ratchet 'clicking' sounds for an art project. I'm trying ...
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DIY device to repeatedly depress and release gas pedal on a vehicle
The pedal needs to be depressed about 1/2 to 1 inch, once every three minutes. I believe the best way to do this will be with a rotating arm of length 2 to 2 1/2 inches that has rollers on each end, ...
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Secure loads to gearbox shafts
I have a sculpture that is designed to rotate over 3 axes at max. 30RPM and is mounted on an aluminium disc. My plan is to use 3 of these geared steppers and secure the sculpture to the Z-axis shaft, ...
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BLDC Motor underwater ; weird behaviour
I recently was riding my e-bike (with a bldc hub motor) and decided to cool the motor (it -the stator- was approx 100-150 celcius I think) in the river.
The controller is on the top of the bike and ...
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Given a BLDC motor with one shaft, where should I attach my encoder?
I have recently purchased an ODrive servo controller made for hobby BLDC motors. Since I had a BLDC motor at home, I did not purchase a dual shaft motor when I got the ODrive.
My question is if I ...
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Wobbling DC motor head
I have used 250 watt DC motor, for DIY electric potters wheel. Motor rated with RPM 3300 and geared reduction to 330 RPM. The issue I am facing is wobbling of the motor head. This issue is with the ...
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Axis connection types
Complete hobbyist here. I have two questions I have a problem figuring out.
I have hard time finding information about axis and types of connections they have. For example take this worm gear reducer: ...
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how do you calculate viscocity from torque arm load cell measurements?
I have a piece of company developed equipment that uses a pot mounted on a rotating base plate with a 0.15m torque arm and load cell, a mixing paddle is used to stir the mixture while the controller ...
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Is it possible to have the load cell signal as feedback to the servo drive of the servo motor?
In my project, I have to control the linear motion in one of the two modes. It will be either in position control or load control.
for the displacement control, The servo motor takes the quadrature ...
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What will happen if we place a couple of separate, small stators around a long rotor instead of 1 large stator around a short rotor?
My original theoretical consideration was using the electric motor's rotor as drive shaft in a car. It led me to this question: "What will happen if we place a couple of separate, small stators around ...
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The optical encoder resolution
The optical encoder has a code wheel with a single track of slots and two photodetectors. The photodetectors are positioned so that they produce signals with a 90 degree phase difference.
I want to ...
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how to calculate required torque and rpm to through a 160 gram cricket ball horizontally at 160km/h velocity?
I am going to design a bowling machine. In this design, I'm going to use two motors that are being placed vertically and their shaft are attached with two horizontal identical wheels with a space of ...
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DC Inverter motor AC utilization category
I am looking at specs of an air conditioner unit. It uses DC inverter technology and maximum current listed as 21.5A
So are DC inverter motors considered resistive or inductive? What utilization ...
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