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Originally Posted by artdutra04
That's incorrect. It needs to be:
(Stall Torque) X (No Load Speed) / 4
since max power output of a DC motor is at half stall torque and half free speed.
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Yes, that is true, as I recall the curves. But, the GDC has seen fit to go straight for no-load speed and stall torque, so for this application, we don't divide by 4. If I remember correctly, there was some to-do about this last year or the year before when there wasn't a power definition at all in the rules.
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