[ausev] GE 11.5 inch motor

[Willie McKemie]

> This is a good question in general. I'm wondering how hard it would be 
> to build a dyno...? maybe with water and some vanes swishing it around 
> or something. Eh, just another distraction I guess. What's unfortunate 
> is that neither Netgain nor Warfield (their manufacturing partner) have 
> a dyno that's large enough to fully test their larger motors at 
> realistic voltages and current.

A big centrifugal water pump with a choke valve on it's outlet would 
certainly make a good load.  It might be possible to make some power 
estimate by measuring the flow and the temperature difference between 
inlet and outlet.

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