Originally Posted by
Bob-Stormer
I beg to differ that it "depends". I've tried the smaller wires. Anybody know the gauge of the wire that brush shunts are made of? Didn't slow down brushed motors any...
I don't know how true it is, but Big Jim Greenemeyer always used to say that the shunts were good for ten amps or so, and that the majority of the current going into the motor was carried through the brush hoods right into the surface of the brush. I know I once raced a car for a whole race day with a broken shunt and didn't notice until I took the motor out to cut it before the main... I was suprised it ran at all without that shunt...
Originally Posted by
Bob-Stormer
and doesn't electricity travel on the outside of wires? So low count 16 or high strand count 18. hmmm. I might be all wet on that "how electricity flows" thing. I haven't actually cared to look or remember for many years.
It's known as the "skin effect" and if I remember right it was said to apply more to high frequency alternating current... I suppose the high switching rates of modern ESC's would make it apply to us, but I don't know for certain.
Originally Posted by
Bob-Stormer
I go with what looks the coolest. sad ain't it.
Not sad at all... I'm not as fast as was fifteen years ago, but my cars look cooler... and if you can't go fast... LOOK fast!