paper: Motor Performance Analysis

[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.