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Re: Drive Train Calcs - Not trusting my results

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
It is really important to note that these calculations are for traction limited at *stall*, not at 40 amps or max power.
Yes. I'm reading the first line of my spreadsheet, where speed = 0 and current is whatever maximum is achieved at the lowered voltage that occurs at startup.

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If you're trying to gear for traction-limited pushing, you definitely want to gear slower than this.
How do you know?