Higher pinions = safer MMM's? Or no? Someone's lying....

[BrianG]

Yeah, no matter what, a vehicle has X amount of kinetic energy "built-up" that is affected by vehicle weight and speed. If you stop on a dime, that energy will be "drained" quickly into the batteries, which results in a huge voltage and current spike, but the spike only lasts a short amount of time. If you stop gradually, that energy will be drained slowly into the batteries, which results in much lower voltage and current, but lasts a lot longer. Just like how batteries drain: pulling 500A for 10 seconds results in the same Ah draw as pulling 16.66A for 5 minutes. And just like batteries, it is pretty obvious which one is going to be harder on a setup.