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Reducing coil windings

By pinheadpierre

6 years ago


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#5 6 years ago

I know from goofing around with small DC motors, the less turns the faster it will spin the more energy it uses, more turns makes more power but it's slower and uses less energy, no clue why or how.....

Not sure if that helps anything at all,adds to confusion, or doesn't apply here? I would imagine it's the same idea's.

#15 6 years ago
Quoted from EMsInKC:

You just failed electronics 101.
More turns causes more resistance which causes less power. Smaller gauge wire causes higher resistance which causes less power.
Less turns lessens resistance which increases power. Larger diameter wire lessens resistance which causes more power.
It's not a matter of magnetic field. It's a matter of resistance and Ohm's law.
Taking turns off a coil will definitely make it more powerful, as long as you don't take too many off and get the resistance so low that it becomes a dead short.

I don't know much about electronics 101....What I do know from playing around with small DC motors. Less turns get you more speed, more rpms, but less power and the battery used will die quick.

More turns(using same wire) will reduce speed and give you more power, stronger motor, the battery will last longer.

This may not apply to a pop bumper coil though. I know it does for fact apply to RC type stuff. We would get our cars faster by taking a 38 turn motor and unwinding to 15 or even 9 turns depending. But at 9T the battery would not last and the car didn't have much take off power, once it got going it would be fast though..

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