Starters as winch motors...

From: Glen Closson (glen@closson.com)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 20:32:05 PST


I'm catching up on my posts...

As I recall, starter motors are "series wound" (or was it shunt wound?) and
as a result will tend to destroy themselves if they don't have a load (kinda
like thermal run-away for the electronic guys).

Plus, since starters are only designed to be run for short periods (very low
duty cycle), I don't think they would make good "motors" for powering things
like wenches, I mean, winches.

Glen



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