Re: Newbie wants grin :(

[Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>]

Lawrence Balogh wrote:
> Once upon a time, I had envisioned using two of these E-tek motors
> mounted shaft nose to shaft nose, with a single 1"  or 1.5" wide
> synchronous drive pulley connecting both shafts.

You'd have 4 bearings in line (2 in each motor). It might be a trick to
get them all perfectly lined up to avoid excessive side loading and
bearing failures.
 
> The brushes would, of course, have to be optimised for counter
> rotations.

These are PM motors. Do they have any brush advance? I'd guess no.

> Does anyone know how difficult it would be to get them to share the
> load more or less equally?

Wire them in series; they would automatically run at the same load.
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