Been doing my research for the last week or so and still can't find any concrete evidence of the following. Sorry in advanced for all the questions, I vow to update the wiki for people following in my footsteps.
What's the difference between a xxxx watt motor that requires a max voltage of 6S vs 10S. Is the S just letting you know "for max efficiency/power use me"? If I buy a motor with a max volt of 10S but only use 6S to the ESC, what am I losing? Do I then have to get a 10S capable ESC and batteries?
Disregarding physics and motor quality and roughly speaking:
Is a single 150kV motor approximately the equivalent power/torque to two 300kV motors?
Assuming top speed >30kmh is not important to me (power/torque is) would choosing a motor that's say 175kV and 230kV make a difference if I can just make up the torque in the gearing? Where's the magical formula to calculate gearing? I'm pulling my hair out with all the combinations of motors and batteries I haven't even looked into how to make gearing work. How fine tuned can you get the gearing, looks like (unless you have a 3d printer or a CNC manufacturing and $$$) you're limited to the few stock ratio/sets of the e-board companies?
What's the difference between dual 130kv and dual 230kv? Max speed will be less on the 130kV but it will climb hills better and accelerate to speed sooner? Is that it? When that 130kV hits it's max speed can the motor burn out if kept there for a long time (assuming gearing isn't terribly setup)?
Assuming same specs, you would think that two motors would split the power/load required between themselves, therefore range would not dimish perhaps even improve if the two motors are running cooler and at a lower duty cycle? But you have all that power for when you need the hills. Am I thinking about this right?
Sensored motors. This means they have Hall sensors built into them? And through the cabling they feed this information back to the ESC which controls of the motors better? Besides ride smoothness, what else will this improve?
How import is airflow to these motors? I plan to make a mountain board and am consider enclosing about 3/4 sides to prevent mud/sand. Is this ok? Or do they need direct airflow for proper cooling? (Again, assuming you're not running the motors at full throttle for an extended time period).
That is all...for now
What's the difference between a xxxx watt motor that requires a max voltage of 6S vs 10S. Is the S just letting you know "for max efficiency/power use me"? If I buy a motor with a max volt of 10S but only use 6S to the ESC, what am I losing? Do I then have to get a 10S capable ESC and batteries?
Disregarding physics and motor quality and roughly speaking:
Is a single 150kV motor approximately the equivalent power/torque to two 300kV motors?
Assuming top speed >30kmh is not important to me (power/torque is) would choosing a motor that's say 175kV and 230kV make a difference if I can just make up the torque in the gearing? Where's the magical formula to calculate gearing? I'm pulling my hair out with all the combinations of motors and batteries I haven't even looked into how to make gearing work. How fine tuned can you get the gearing, looks like (unless you have a 3d printer or a CNC manufacturing and $$$) you're limited to the few stock ratio/sets of the e-board companies?
What's the difference between dual 130kv and dual 230kv? Max speed will be less on the 130kV but it will climb hills better and accelerate to speed sooner? Is that it? When that 130kV hits it's max speed can the motor burn out if kept there for a long time (assuming gearing isn't terribly setup)?
Assuming same specs, you would think that two motors would split the power/load required between themselves, therefore range would not dimish perhaps even improve if the two motors are running cooler and at a lower duty cycle? But you have all that power for when you need the hills. Am I thinking about this right?
Sensored motors. This means they have Hall sensors built into them? And through the cabling they feed this information back to the ESC which controls of the motors better? Besides ride smoothness, what else will this improve?
How import is airflow to these motors? I plan to make a mountain board and am consider enclosing about 3/4 sides to prevent mud/sand. Is this ok? Or do they need direct airflow for proper cooling? (Again, assuming you're not running the motors at full throttle for an extended time period).
That is all...for now