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Started by Vecheslav Silagadze March 29, 2004
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Vecheslav Silagadze wrote:

> > On your other zero torque issue - it is common to see almost no
> > torque down around 30% duty cycle. The last gearmotor that I used
> did
> > not even start to rotate until about 50% duty cycle. When it did
> > start rotating, it had a high torque.
>
> That's interesting. Why is the power being eaten up like that?
> Conceptually it would seem that at 30% duty cycle I should be getting
> 100% torque with 30% speed because I'm delivering 30% of the power I
> would be delivering at 100% duty cylce.

Conceptually wrong.



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