Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Motor to drive a 200 mm wheel scooter

Status
Not open for further replies.

ManuelSilva

Electrical
Joined
Mar 16, 2001
Messages
1
Location
PT
I am a Portuguese Electromechanical engineer and I am building an electric scooter.
I need a PMDC motor to drive the traction wheel (preference in a common cheap motor, like fan motors or similar) .
I was thinking in a 24V / 0,5 HP (or more) / 3000 RPM / belt transmission, with PWM motor control. The scooter wheels will have a diameter of aprox. 200 mm and should run at aprox. 30 Km/h. I kindly request some information about this subject and since you must know some solutions for this kind of applications, please give me some (including motor control).
Thank you in advance.

Manuel F.R. da Silva
 
Suggestion to the crisyd posting: Perhaps two smaller motors, one from each side at the same location, propelling the tire directly could prove to be more advantageous since the traction would be higher, the belt would not be needed included the big plastic wheel and when one burns, hopefully, the other one would serve (a little, at least) so that one would not have a "flat tire."
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top