Two electric motors, 1 chain, 2x power?

[cb22]

Hi hi, so I have 2x identical 250W electric motors lying around. What I'm wondering is if I hook both of them up to a single chain, and power them at the same time, would it give me twice the power (or near twice), or would it just blow up?

Yes, I know about powering each wheel with its own motor, I'm just thinking of things...

Thanks!

 

[oscaryu1]

Twice the speed? No. Twice the power/torque? It's just not calculated that way.

It's just the same thing that you can't add the 4 cores on a Quad and call it like 9.6GHz or so.

 

[2or3wheels]

it should give you more power, this is if you have them at equal power. but this is theroy and i think you should try it, start with one and then rig up the second and see if the power or speed or both increace.

 

[847]

speed won't increase because no extra rpms, or maybe it will help it reach like 2 mph more.. amd phenoms scale @ 3.75 instead of being an assumed 4.0. so i think two motors would be more like 1.65... got alot of batteries?

 

[kibble]

amd phenoms scale @ 3.75 instead of being an assumed 4.0.

Where did this come into play? LOL :arf:

 

[Pyrotechnic]

Maybe not twice the horsepower, but maybe almost twice the torque ?

 

[847]

Where did this come into play? LOL :arf:

well because a quad has 4 cores, but is not 100 percent scaling, so it is more like 3.75 cores.

 

[tpc0531]

IF the motors are running the same rpm in the same direction relative to the drive shaft, your torque output will be doubled.

If you drive a wheel with each motor, the cart will experience the same thing, just the wheels will not be tied together with a common shaft.

 

[I like karts]

Idea!

Get treads and hook one motor up to each set of treads, then set up both throttles independently, and then you have a tank.