• jaschen@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    The size of the battery only adds capacity, not power. You gotta increase voltage.

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      5 days ago

      It also increases the amount of current you can draw from the battery at once (the C rating).

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        5 days ago

        Would increase current increase the motors intensity? I guess the motor speed wouldn’t increase, but when you start using the motor, the current would help sustain the speed.

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          5 days ago

          To increase current, you have to either increase voltage or decrease the overall resistance of a circuit. For changing resistance of motors, that usually means changing the windings. Meaning it’s a matter of part selection during design.

          What that means is that when they chose a motor, they needed to take into account the C rating of typical batteries available at the time.