--- In [email protected], Talmadge C 'TC' Carr wrote:
>
> Baloney
> Size is not everything. Many of the high tech motors I have outpull
> any Pitman antique you can fit in the hood.
>
Salami
If two drives are equally engineered the larger one is always gonna pull more.
Reserving space for electronics will win the sound and smoke awards and
simplifying the gear train by using high speed gears will win the speed contest
but larger motor and low speed gears will win the pulling train contest plus be
more rugged and easy to repair if it breaks. The typical toy train drive O
scale diesels don't use coreless motors they use $10 chinese can motors. They
don't use fancy gear trains they use open straight cut spur gears in a rigid
truck block. They are not engineering them to be precise or reliable they are
engineering them to be fast , loud and cheap to build (without passing the
savings on to the customer as the nicely designed single motor atlasO switcher
doesn't cost any more than the 150 MPH geared twin motored locos
)....DaveBranum
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