New delivery.
Picked up some Kato electric motors. I needed two motors for the other Milwaukee bi-polar but didn't want to pay the going rate of around 50 bucks for the Mashima large size motor. I need around a 15MMX30MM motor with high RPM's and most are expensive.
Model train stuff had the kato motors for $17.30 so I bought two.
- Casing length - 33mm
- Casing height - 20.3mm
- Casing Width - 17mm
- Shaft length - 11.6mm
- Shaft width - 2mm
Unfortunately, I could find no data on RPM's. The old saying 'there's no replacement for displacement' so I wanted a large size motor that has enough torque to power large engines. I connected them to a DC power pack and they seem to have high RPM's. The two contacts are long pieces of flat copper. I'll cut these down to stubs.
I was surprised that there were no holes drilled in the ends for mounting screws! I guess I'll use some silicon caulk.
I had two Mashima motors that I got many moons ago for one bi-polar which is in the final assembly stage.
The other bi-polar will get the Kato motors. I'm figuring these motors are high quality since Kato seems to make very nice engines.
I've, also, got an MTH bi-polar so, hopefully, I can run all three together on a passenger train. Probably I'll need all three as the other two custom brass power units only have the two outside set of wheels (out of 4 axles) powered. I was surprised by this as my two custom brass GN W-1 electrics have all wheels powered and they pull very well.
