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Re: matching motor speeds on mutli-motor trains
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Date: 
Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:09:28 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes:
Today, when my green trolley rearended my red trolley I decided to
test my motors. I ranked them in order of speed. Then I thought that it
would be bad to have a fast motor paired with a slow motor.

I've been thinking the same thing. I almost always put two motors on each loco
and I'm beginning to suspect that some of my biggest mismatches, which I've
perhaps left that way for too long, have actually been causing damage to one
motor or the other.

How did you test your motors? It seems to me that it would be hard to do this
precisely enough to get good results when pairing up motors for the same unit

++Lar



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  Re: matching motor speeds on mutli-motor trains
 
(...) loco (...) I've (...) one (...) Actually there's no problem at all. This topic has been deeply discussed in the lugnet.robotics ng: (URL) (some train specific examples in this message) (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)  
  Re: matching motor speeds on mutli-motor trains
 
(...) I'm not sure that this would cause that much problem unless the mismatch was very bad, unless you're really stressing out the motors with long trains (though I doubt we ever really get close to the load capacity of the motors due to the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: matching motor speeds on mutli-motor trains
 
I only have 7 motors, so I raced them. I started two motors next to each other, one in front of the other, and race in the forward direction and then in the opposite direction. My oldest motor is MUCH slower than my fastest. So, since I have gone (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)

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  matching motor speeds on mutli-motor trains
 
Today, when my green trolley rearended my red trolley I decided to test my motors. I ranked them in order of speed. Then I thought that it would be bad to have a fast motor paired with a slow motor. I thought that pairing motors with dissimilar (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)  

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