I'm surprised to not see the subject of torque arise when discussing a suitable motor for a conversion of an ICE tractor. My limited understanding of tractors does mean more questions than answers. I've operated a couple that have a method for a fixed throttle setting, but almost always that setting is high, due to the need of such rpm from the ICE to operate the attached devices. Ground speed is relatively low, and that represents gearing, which in this example, means increased torque.
If one is pursuing a replacement electric motor, I would expect that horsepower means less than a specific torque at a given rpm. Electric motors provide good torque at low rpm compared to an ICE, yes? If a specific tractor had, for example, a 100 hp ICE, one would not have to have that amount of horsepower from the replacement electric motor, would one? Just a thought or two... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140117/49918b0c/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
