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Originally Posted by timpanda
Great job, looks awesome. How well is your battery handling all that power from the vacuum?
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We learned quite a bit about radial impellers/blowers in the last week or so. If you get an impeller that is properly sized and tuned for the RPM you run it at it can be pretty nice on power consumption.
Our initial prototype drew over 40 amps from the FP running it direct...a few impellers later it draws 7 amps without a ball in possesion and 3.5 amps with a ball in possesion (running off of 1 FP motor). I think that is on par with most rotary ball posession devices.
We still have a TON to get done before our practice with the folks up in Quincy on Saturday. Hopefully we can pull off a fully functional machine by then!
Good luck everyone!
Rob