Posted on November 4, 2022 by admin
For the past few years I have been building motor controllers with generally good success. In the past year, for the first time I have delved into making custom motors as well. For the project mentioned in this article, I used the laminations from an air conditioner, but for my latest motor (the 250lb RIPperoni motor, to be discussed in a future blog post) I designed a fully custom rotor in FEMM, and had the resulting lamination/magnet combo manufactured overseas. This is a lot of effort, but the performance achievable is far superior to anything else on the market. A
