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Re: 2 motor drive VS 4 motor drive

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Originally Posted by Marc S. View Post
When accelerating you will draw less current with 2 drive motors, but at speed 4 will draw less then 2 overal. This is presuming that both senatios are using the same gear ratio. Accounting for the powers loss (with a lower gear ratio) will lower the draw. Check it out with the jvn calc.
It's worth noting that the robots total coulombic consumption (number of electrons taken from the battery, i.e. energy) to reach top speed will be essentially the same with 4 cims as it will with 2 cims.
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