Motors

QUOTE (amarcord @ 10 Apr 2012, 18:38) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>This is a Beardog Motors (L= 18,7 mm.) for chassis F1
ciao!!!

Nice, but not what I intended to initiate with this thread. A motor that stands vertically in the chassis is absolutely counter - produvtive to the idea of getting flatter for being able to build the mentioned "open" cars as well.

I can not imagine that, if I have a real SCALE formula one car in 1/43rd, the body will fit onto this chassis/motor configuration. If a motor protrudes so much as in this chassis, I could also use 32nd scale motors and tweak the body a bit...
This is only my view of 43rd SCALE slotracing, no doctrine.

Roland

QUOTE (Tsooko @ 8 Apr 2012, 18:07) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hey Roland
When I was flying RC helicopters The tail rotor was often controlled by it's own motor. These motors are quite small.

That´s right, but unfortunately too weak, too.

I know you can get smaller ones. Perhaps one of those will do. The only problem I found is that they didn't have carbon brushes and therefore didn't last very long. Small carbon brushed motors could be a little harder to find.

Yes, but I have done a lot of "research work" with small motors meanwhile and believe me, there are more than enough with appropiate carbon brushes and size. The bad luck is that none of them has characteristics that make him REALLY usable for our purposes ( no of turns, wire dia., timing, mag strength or whatsoever ) A lot of slotracers compensate such shortcomings by simply altering the working voltage. But that´s a suspect compromise in my opinion.

Another solution is to mount a motor midship and use an extention. ( driveshaft ) MT Resins has small motors and drive shaft extention tubes. Then you can mount your motor forward of the usual position, like under the driver where there is more room. This is what I'm going to do with my Bentley Speed 8 bodies. This is of course much easier on LMP's that have a covered cockpit. ( roof )
Just some thoughts

A mid - engine is nice and if you build the model simply for fun or to try some different principles and techniques, it is a very interesting experiment. BUT as soon as you need a real racecar, the motor has to be where it has to be.....inline, or better angle -or sidewinder.

Nonetheless - in 32nd scale I built a Panoz with a PCB chassis. I was able to shift the motor 10 mm into chassis center direction and still could use the complete original FLY cockpit. These 10 mm made a totally different and really stunning handling car from the original vehicle. ...

Finally back to the motors once more. I think that the armature dimensions of H0 - slotcars, combined with a narrower can and endbell, would be small enough to build almost any 43rd scale car. The few really usable motors in small sizes just like from the MASHIMA brand ( esp. M-16/19/20 )

http://www.zephyr.dti.ne.jp/~katumi60/p00.html

are unfortunately quite expensive. Sold from the producer for - as an example - 8 Dollars, sold in the model railroad shop for 20 ( !!! ) dollars.....

Bye,

Roland



Ted

QUOTE (masmojo @ 11 Apr 2012, 17:55) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>There are a couple motor options out there that many may not have thought of. I have a couple E-Flite Helicopter motors, but they are not the ultra small rotor motors, more of the main rotor motor, they are slightly smaller around then a GO!/RS motor but a little longer, proportioned like the D-slot motor, just smaller I am seriosly considering one of these for my proxy entry even though I have never run one before (all the chips on the table! )

Another option many may not have considered is HO and N gauge train motors. Some of these are the same motors we already use, BUT there are some other High end motors from Japan, I have bought a few, but I have not had a chance to try'em out yet. There are even Brushless Model train motors, but they cost more by themselve then one D-slot car! Many might think these motors too slow and it's been a couple year since I researched them, but many turn pretty quick, the main reason some may think they are slow is because many times trains use worm gears with tons of gear reduction. The motor itself is actually turning pretty fast! One additional attraction to some of the small train motors is that some of them are already set up for shaft drive. so theoretically you could position the motor in front of the cockpit of an open car and the shaft could turn the rear mounted gear!

I have not had time to test these, I may not have time to finish my car(s) before the race date, but maybe you guys can chew on that for me!?

Have a look at the HP of MASHIMA ( see my answers ). There are just the motors you talk about. Mainly used for trains, but all parameters good for slotcars. Only the retail price .....

Roland

QUOTE (masmojo @ 12 Apr 2012, 19:16) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I have used HO car motors in a couple of scratchbuilds, my main issue (and I would like to stress that as much as I worried about it, it was a Non issue in the last race) was that they use a very small pinion and the shaft in most HO motors is small as well. This is fine for a small HO car, but my Heller Mini, even though it has the footprint of an HO car was probably twice as heavy with it's brass chassis. That car was not run too much, but I fear that if run very much at all, I would have trouble keeping pinions on it! We used to have problems breaking/losing pinions on our HO cars when I was a kid, with 1/43 it's going to be twice as bad!!

Well, I have just bought a pile of small motors with shafts of 0.985 mm dia.
And I found brass tubing that fits the shaft very "snugly" ( does that word exist ?? ). O.D. 1.98 mm. Small pieces will be glued or even soldered to the shaft and then turned down to the diameter needed. No problem.

Roland