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How much starting torque do you gain when you go from an Induction Motor to a PM brushless DC motor with the same envelope?

Electricpete: I just finished reading the "motor mythbusters" paper, which you wrote. It is indeed a good paper. On a side note, somehow I thought that there was a direct relationship between the "D^2L" with the motor horsepower. I was once told that to size a motor using an existing...