paper: Motor Performance Analysis

[akeisic]

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Motor Performance Analysis by akeisic

All,

I'm happy to finally upload version 4.0 of my motor performance spreadsheet! It's been in development for a while now and I'm happy to release it in time for the 2015 season. Here's the summary of the upgrades.

v4.0 Upgrades: MAJOR OVERHAUL TO ALL FUNCTIONALITY!!
- Added the ability to combine multiple dis-similar motors
- Added easy drop downs to combine motors via free speed, max power or max efficiency.
- Added the ability to maximize the device's speed or torque (design philosophy)
- Added the ability to save design iterations
- Added the ability to see the de-normalized motor graphs (useful for motor comparisons)
- Added the ability to match the real life gear ratio by adjusting the design philosophy
- Updated all motor specifications and provided hyperlinks to data source
- Added the optimal gear ratio per gear interface
- Added the ability to compare the resultant values vs the required values
- Overhauled the user interface to be more intuitive

Good luck!
Andrew

[Michael Hill]

This is pretty awesome. Definitely one of the most polished Excel spreadsheets I've ever seen, that's for sure. I'm curious, with the default settings in there, is that combining 4 CIMs with 2 MiniCIMs and 2 Banebots? I'm a little confused at why you would do that. Does that simulate a possible full drivetrain motor set as a single motor?

[akeisic]

I appreciate the compliment. I actually spent a good amount of time with our user interface folks at work to determine the best layout and presentation of the workbook.

As for the default settings, I combined those motors primarily to illustrate the capability of the workbook. I don't foresee any practical example of needing to combine so much motor power, but it's nice to think that you could have a 2k Watt motor if you really wanted. I also loaded a couple of other examples into the workbook to illustrate various features and applications of the workbook. You'll find those, by hitting the open icon. I know the most common use will be to input a single motor type and determine the gear ratio.

In all cases (including when only a single motor is selected), the workbook functions by determining the equivalent motor specifications of the combined motor and then performs all the gear ratio calculations. When I save the design iterations, I simply save only the user inputted values as everything else is calculated.