Drive Train Calcs - Not trusting my results

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

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.

Originally Posted by Chris is me

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

How do you know?