Dear All,
If you wanted to combine the output of 2 electric motors to have the output
available on one shaft, could you use a differential in reverse, as it were?
IE connect each motor directly to what should be the left and right
half-shaft and then the output would be available on what would normally be
the input shaft. Then you could connect the one lump (motor
pair/differential) output to the input shaft of your donor vehicle to
complete the drive train (or put it through a gearbox etc).
The advantages would be;-
a/ you could use relatively inexpensive AC motor/controller combos like ebay
#250162167453 to achieve quite good peak power (80HP in this case) instead
of much more expensive alternatives and
b/ that instead of having each motor connected to a wheel - as I gather
multi-motor conversions are done usually - you can leave all the potentially
difficult to modify drive train, suspension etc as it is. It would also
allow the use of a gearbox - even the full unadulterated donor vehicle drive
train (g/box, prop shaft, differential, half-shafts/rear axle) without mods.
I don't know if they are designed to be run in reverse though.
Regards, Martin.
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If you wanted to combine the output of 2 electric motors to have the output
available on one shaft, could you use a differential in reverse, as it were?
IE connect each motor directly to what should be the left and right
half-shaft and then the output would be available on what would normally be
the input shaft. Then you could connect the one lump (motor
pair/differential) output to the input shaft of your donor vehicle to
complete the drive train (or put it through a gearbox etc).
The advantages would be;-
a/ you could use relatively inexpensive AC motor/controller combos like ebay
#250162167453 to achieve quite good peak power (80HP in this case) instead
of much more expensive alternatives and
b/ that instead of having each motor connected to a wheel - as I gather
multi-motor conversions are done usually - you can leave all the potentially
difficult to modify drive train, suspension etc as it is. It would also
allow the use of a gearbox - even the full unadulterated donor vehicle drive
train (g/box, prop shaft, differential, half-shafts/rear axle) without mods.
I don't know if they are designed to be run in reverse though.
Regards, Martin.
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