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Re: Banebots motors inductance

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
Does anyone have inductance specs for the 2011-legal Banebots motors?
I just got off the phone with Banebots.

They don't have (or won't reveal) the inductance of their motors.

Would someone with access to a scope be willing to run a short test on an RS775 with the rotor locked and powered by a Black Jag at 20% PWM output, and post the trace of voltage and current at the motor?

A cruder (but still useful) test would be to hit the locked-rotor RS775 with a 12V step input of duration at least 6 milliseconds and record the voltage and current trace.

I can get the inductance from the curve.

It may be necessary to run the test with the rotor at slightly different rotational positions because of the brushes.

I do not have access to the necessary test equipment or I'd do it myself.

The inductance of the motor is a necessary piece of information to answer some questions that have been asked about power consumption of the RS775 under various stall conditions.