🔩 1:7 belt drive for mountainboard with badass torque

If you imagined the pulley was exactly the same size as the wheel, then pick whatever wheel size, and the torque is the same.

In your example btw, a 90T HTD 5M pulley would have a circumference of ~450mm => diameter of 143mm, or around 5.6 inches. Not bad for a 9 inch wheel or whatever.

I do see the appeal of this drive though: achieving higher torque than you could ever get with like a 14T motor pulley and idlers, or whatever is the realistic minimum we use.

However I don’t think adding another belt and pulley is worth it just to use a higher kv motor. (Extra inefficiencies from more moving parts) Would love to be proved wrong though.

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