DC motor Power Question

Hi All, I am at the very early stage of my concept and I am looking for some advice on DC motors. I am looking to build a 6DoF Stewart platform and from reviewing other build posts it seems that motor power can be an issue. My design would be in wood and I would prefer not to have to use springs or dampers

I will purchase new motors and I see motors are available up to ½ HP. Can anyone give me advice if a regular 110V outlet would have the capacity to run 6 DC 1/2HP motors. Also is 1/2 HP way overkill?

Hello, I can't answer you for a 6dof as I am not familiar with their design, but I have A 1000watts PSU (220v) to supply two 250w motors on a 2dof and it's weak. It does for now, but when motors want to go fast the psu gets weak... It's a wooden build, the seat is light and my weight is 70Kg.. I would advise you to take Something powerfull... 1000watts chinesse PSU might not be enought for a 500w dc motor

Hi,

Well I'm not an expert of 110/120v countries and therefore don't know much about common fuses there but I'll try to help out here:

In case you're talking about a standard NEMA5 plug/outlet, it usually is fused at 15Amps (North Americans please correct me if I'm wrong ) - That means at 120V the max. theoretical power you could pull out is 1800Watts.

Now it depends on the power consuption of your motors to see how many you can use.

My 6DOF rig uses six 24V 500W motors controlled through Sabertooths 2*60. Sabertooths are powered by a combination of two mid-size batteries (connected in series to get 24V) and four Meanwell 960W power supplies running in parallel.

I am in 220V country, but I was also worried about overloading if all PSU's were plugged into a single circuit.

In practice, however, currents on the AC side are quite low even on the wildest moves. My powermeter shows that total AC current never exceeds 5-6A. Probably this is because the batteries handle the current peaks and the PSU's mostly just recharge the batteries.

@Grigory PSU running in parallel works well? No problems?

It works just fine. I now have two sims: 6 DOF with four PSU in parallel and 3 DOF with two PSU in parallel. Both are functioning without issues.

@grirory Thanks, I had doubts about this

Just keep in mind that my PSU explicitly support such operation and even have a special cable connection between units to coordinate it.

See Meanwell SDR-960-24

Important addition, thanks.