Sure but you must be precise in your measurements and must measure the motors temperature prior to use and imediately afterwards (including the core of the rotor) as well as measure the heat dissapated through the motor casing into the vehicles frame and....
On second thought, no. At least not with any reasonable precision. You might be able to get a reading that is accurate within 10%, but how would you know? Mark Dodrill wrote: >Since my Optima YT's are rolling along just fine (about 1k miles on them >now), I want to turn my attention to increasing overall efficiency, to reduce >my Amp/Hrs per mile. I'll be looking into front end alignment, LRR tires, >etc, but I suspect my motor is where I'm losing the most. > >Since it is a 6.7" ADC (a bit small for my car), I suspect that I'm having >a lot of electricity turned into heating up the motor instead of having >the motor run faster (since I'm at the upper end of the power/torque it >will do). I'm wondering how I can measure this loss. If I were to measure >the air temp going into the motor and the temp leaving the motor, with a >fan of a fixed CFM blowing air through the motor (in a sealed manner), can >I use that information to figure out how many BTUs or Watts of heat are >being generated? > >Any ideas on how to proceed on quantifying this would be appreciated. > >Mark Dodrill > > >
