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Re: 2583's prototype shooter

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Originally Posted by ferrari77 View Post
The wheel is direct driven by the CIM and just directly hooked to a battery. I believe this leads to around 4000 RPM
Once up to speed, the only external load on the CIM is windage and vibration due to unbalanced wheel. At 12 volts and 4000 rpm, the CIM would be drawing 34 amps and generating 250 watts of output power at the shaft. If you guys have a clamp-on ammeter, it would be most interesting to see what the current draw actually is.


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We were wondering how changes in RPM ... would change the trajectory and we found that using a half dead battery, so a lower RPM, the frisbee only flew marginally less distance and was stills table.
Not sure what you mean by a "half dead" battery.

Do you plan to do closed-loop control of wheel speed? If so, when you get the speed sensor mounted you could provide some useful data to the CD community showing how rpm affects the frisbee flight path.