Saturday, June 25, 2011

Railflyer Prototype Models traction motor in action

I reported previously about Railflyer Prototype Models and there attempts to get a scale traction motor assembly to market. Pretty much all components are now ready for production, with only the heatsinks being a couple of days behind. As soon as these are in, they can be assembled and mounted on the trucks to demonstrate a real working truck with traction motors. However, the video here was posted to demonstrate that it does work, a miniature electric motor driving one axle. I am very curious to see how these work once they are mounted to a truck, under a nice heavy loco frame. :-)

2 comments:

  1. I like the odds of 6 independent motors providing some incredible performance, especially slow crawling starts.

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  2. yes me too. the motors are small, but 4 or 6 of them together, plus the weight of the loco should (hopefully) give great performance.

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