I am New to robotics and have a general question. I want to make a 4 wheel 4 motor drive unit. I am using 4 wheelchair motors which should be around 450 Watts max. I am having a hard time fining the exact information. I am also reducing the final drive 6 to 1. I am only trying for 4 to 7 MPH. Just torque. I have a Cytron Smart Dual Channel 60A Motor Driver. My Voltage is 24. My basic conversion of amps to watts says I will be close. Will this be large enough? If not can I run 2 in parallel?
Hello @austinsecurity and welcome to the RobotShop forum,
You mention that you have one Cytron Smart Dual Channel 60A Motor Driver, which only has two channels so if you have 4 motors you would have to run 2 in parallel either way. Ideally, to choose a motor controller you should know the nominal voltage, continuous current, and stall current. However, if you only know that the power is around 450 Watts and you will be using 24V, the current consumption for each motor should be around 19A; if you have to use 2 motors in parallel this means each channel should withstand at least 38A. The Cytron SmartDriveDuo supports up to 60A continuous current each channel and up to 100A peak (for 1 second) so it should work for you.