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Has anyone taken apart a power wheels?

rwgast_logicdesignrwgast_logicdesign Posts: 1,464
edited 2013-01-14 19:40 in Robotics
I was just thinking about where one could get sizeable motors/heavy gearboxes for cheap cheap. Then I remembered about those power wheels little kids have these days... So I went looking on ebay and the motors are pretty affordable! But they look a bit dinky...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/POWER-WHEELS-DUMAR-RAPTOR-700-YAMAHA-GEARBOX-MOTOR-/290761914532?pt=Outdoor_Toys_Structures_US&hash=item43b2c2b8a4

I mean these can carry around an elementary school child correct? I was thinking if one were to make a 4wd platform with powerwheels maybe it would be able to carry a grown man? Im not sure though, those motors are ALOT smaller than wheelchair motors, they look like RC motors, how do these hall around a child? Power wheels use a rack and pinion/ackerman setup right? So one of these motors pulls a child around?

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  • al1970al1970 Posts: 64
    edited 2013-01-12 22:20
    Hi:

    I have. I would not used them to pull a person around, I would use wheelchair motors for that. They would have no problem running a nice size robot. The motors are small for what they can do. I have two 6 volts motors / gearbox on a robot that I am working on. I loaded it down with 40 lbs and it move it with easy. The wheels on the robot are 10". There are two types of motor/gearbox, one works on 6 volts and the other 12 volts. Unless you are making one very large robot, you are better off using power wheel motors because they much smaller and lighter than wheelchair motors. They would also be easier to build a motor controler for since they take much less current and voltage to run them.

    AL
  • TtailspinTtailspin Posts: 1,326
    edited 2013-01-14 07:48
    It looks like these guys tried to take one apart...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEUdHImkHlY


    -Tommy
  • rwgast_logicdesignrwgast_logicdesign Posts: 1,464
    edited 2013-01-14 12:43
    Wow thats awesome, I should send them an email asking for the scrap :)
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2013-01-14 19:40
    rwgast_logicdesign wrote: »
    ...if one were to make a 4wd platform with powerwheels maybe it would be able to carry a grown man?

    These guys makes them carry supersized engineers

    http://pumpingstationone.org/tag/ppprs/

    They take the kid's discarded power wheels, and beat the snot out of it till it breaks. Then they replace the broken parts with parts they over engineered. Then repeat until race day.

    I saw some of these, they look totally fun. Soon as the kid out grows the power wheels, I'm all over this :)
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