need opinions on NPC-64038 wheelchair motors

[CorvairNut]

Hello all. I'm planning to start building my motion platform soon. My build will be used for both driving and flying so I will need decent travel for the flying. This is a budget build so please keep cost in mind when giving advice.

I have obtained (through a friend) a pair of wheelchair motors NPC-64038. These are 24 volt motors, 230 RPM, 1.6 hp. I was told the gearboxes are probably 33:1 ratio.

These are a lot more powerful than the ones Floriske used in his build but I will have longer travel so I probably need more power. I am told that I can run these on 12v instead of 24v and probably still have more than enough power.. what do you think?

Any advice on how to power these (keeping price reasonable)? I assume powering them at 12v will be cheaper and probably work fine?

Thanks,

Ray R.

[motiondave]

if you use these motors, power wise.
12v , arduino and 12v h-brdges or JRKS, car battery with 20 amp PSU in parallel.
24v , arduino and 24v h-bridges with 24 truck battery and suitable PSU in parallel.
Scan the ard thread for more info on suitable h-brdges for 12 and 24v.
For simplicity in 12v, I suggest JRKS.

[CorvairNut]

Thanks, JRK's were the way I was expecting to go, but since the possible 24 volt idea didn't come up until I got these motors cheap I hadn't looked into it and didn't realize the JRK's were no good with 24 volt.

I think it would be cheaper and simpler to use them at 12 volt, and I expect they would still be powerful enough but really that is a WAG.

Thanks for the reply!

Ray R.

[wptm]

I'm building the Thanos (Tronicgr)'s H-Bridge. Well, I planned to use it on 12V wipers. However I've found in its documentation:

Although the DSMhb1.2b is designed to work with 12V wiper motors mainly, it can handle larger motors too (200W or 25A/24V)

My plan is to connect it into the Arduino (open source) solution.

[telfel]

Hi

Have you seen the now Vex was Texas Instruments Black Jaguar 24 volt 40 amp cont, 90 amp burst, Position control mode, pot or encoder feedback $60.00

Use's Serial to Can Bus bridge, so would require a plugin for X sim, controllers can be daisy chained, also it might be possible to run car instruments off the Can Bus ?

regards Terry

[CorvairNut]

Terry, that sounds interesting but I don't know the terminology. I have to google "can bus" to find out what that is... is the plugin readily available and reliable?

Ray R.