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DIY Arduino wheel

Discussion in 'Direct Drive Wheels' started by lesley, Nov 26, 2021.

  1. lesley

    lesley New Member

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    What power supply would I need to power a 24V wheelchair motor
    3900Rpm
    320 watt
    13amp to build the Arduino DIY wheel

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    Yes,I'm currently creating paddle shifters for it
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    Hit me with a step by step brosef
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    Anything above 312 watts
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    minimum 15amps 24v, but to be on the safe side if peaks occurred maybe 20amps
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    Rodeo5150 ROOKIE BUT LEARNING FAST Gold Contributor

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    I'm curious what gave you the idea to use a wheelchair motor I assume you just took the gearbox off correct? I'd like to know more information on this I'm very curious about your process here. I'm interested what are you using for holding torque I mean are you using just the motor I mean what's providing the torque
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    Hello
    In my mind there are some things that over complicate themselves unnecessarily. In this case i just used the idea of the G27 wheel, literally 2 Dc motors(or 1 i dnt remember)and a controller with some board telling the motor how to rotate.(ffb) replicate that, like i have and you have a wheel of your own that does the exact same thing. I cannot answer your question as to "holding torque" , but what i can tell you is it works exactly how a "dc motorized" sim wheel should work. i can go for 4 hours at a time before heating becomes an issue.(because i have no fans and its in prototype form even tho i'm using it for a long time, its only temporary). i feel bumps,kurbs slips,etc. it does the job. this could be useless information but to me i have a working "smaller scale DD wheel". i mean, i know in numbers things tend to complicate, but a DD wheel is just a motor(servo motor directly to an encoder) i just replicated it with a DC motor with an attached encoder to the back.
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    i will post a video of it later, and somehow i will explain what's happening and how i done it. this should answer probably every bodies question that's following this design.