Recent content by pckinzley

Finally made some progress on this project but ran into a snag. I ended up going with a similar solution as randycy1 for the roller. However, I notice the bearing are eating the belt a little so may 3d print a covering that will hopefully be smoother. I did end up transitioning to a 12 and...

Does anyone have any comment on calculating for power of a given motor or system? I want to design for a given total weight 200Lbs. How do you calculate whether a given motor KV/amp/gearing ratio will work? Nowind: how much stress would you say is on the roller in your case? Is most of the...

I am not sure if it would be incorrect to post this here, so apologies in advance if so.. I wanted to find out where others are getting their pulleys, belts, general mechanical parts, etc in the USA. I used sdp-si for my gears and belts and they worked fine but they dont seem to have quite a...

Thanks for these reply's sorry for my slow response. For some reason I thought the forum would email me but it must not be default. Weechumlee: I did start to worry about my ESC. It does have braking and timing stuff despite being a heli design but I had a bad feeling on it and went out and...

Hi All, I just built an electric mountain board but am having some problems in the power or torque or gearing of my rig. I listed out the components/specs below and had thought that I had somewhat over built this system but I cannot seem to any get good inital speed. I am using a sensorless...