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I was wondering if anyone has ever tried a Gasoline engine powering electric drive motors? The big haul trucks are using this design now for massive torque on a huge scale from diesel engines. Electric drive motors seem to have massive torque so they wouldn't need to be massive, sure the weight might be significant. Just wondering
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sounds like a diesel locomotive. diesel engine runs the generator that powers the electric motors that drive the wheels. maybe ? j.b. -
Johns right, that's about how it works. I'm no engineer, but I do know that electric motors demand solid voltages. Low voltage=early failure.
It's a good idea, but in order for an electric motor to last that engine would need to be nearly wide open all the time to provide the juice, a large battery or two, plus the weight of 6-8 electric variable speed motors. (Heavy)
That's a lot of components that are naturally heavy. An electric motor is usually made of lots of copper windings wrapped around a heap of lead. It would work very nicely, low maintainance, but ridiculously expensive to produce, and most likely too heavy for water. Let alone we all know what happens when electronics get wet.
Trains can get away with it because they ride on steel wheels, and a well designed rail.sigpicComment
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