Darn...no over-volting the Monster

[johnrobholmes]

I actually prefer a lower turn motor for crawling with more geardown. While higher turn motors produce more torque per amp, they also pull less amperage so for any certain speed the power is a wash. Most people run 55t motors because they have enough power and are the right speed for our average geardown (and they won't smoke as fast under a stall). I run motors about three times as fast, gear down as much as possible, and volt up so high that few of my crawlers can actually pass as crawlers anymore :D

I am actually doing a test to see which motor wind has more torque at given loads and voltages. I have a feeling there there will be a sweet spot for each motor where it will have the best torque under said load if the batteries will handle the amp draw. With a fixed geardown my suspicion is that a low turn motor will perform better at low loads, and high turn motors will perform better at higher loads. This is because the batteries will be a limiting factor. At any rate I do know that 540 motors of similar build are all about the same power no matter what the wind (within reason) if volted to the same RPM.