Brushed motor wiring questions

[Dagger Thrasher]

I'd suggest paralleling the motors, and running 4S. Unlike brushless motors, with half the voltage going to the motors in series, you'll also get considerably less torque as they can't just pull all the current in the world to make up for the low voltage (like BL); I learnt a lot about brushed motors way back when I was running brushed setups in my old Wild Dagger. If you want lower RPMs, I'd just gear down personally. On 4S, you'll be running them at their most efficient too.

The MM should be able to handle them easily in High-Power FWD-only mode, but might have a bit of a hard-time in reversable mode (at a guess). Just my 0.2

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by Dagger Thrasher

I'd suggest paralleling the motors, and running 4S. Unlike brushless motors, with half the voltage going to the motors in series, you'll also get considerably less torque as they can't just pull all the current in the world to make up for the low voltage (like BL); I learnt a lot about brushed motors way back when I was running brushed setups in my old Wild Dagger. If you want lower RPMs, I'd just gear down personally. On 4S, you'll be running them at their most efficient too.

The MM should be able to handle them easily in High-Power FWD-only mode, but might have a bit of a hard-time in reversable mode (at a guess). Just my 0.2

Thanks for the info. I figured that I would wire them parallel and just run 4s thru the MM. I will be in fwd/rev mode, so hopefully the higher voltage will help the esc survive. Considering I will be gearing for around 10mph in 1st and 15mph in 2nd I do not see the MM having any issues...