Re: Motors in Europe

[paul needham <paul.2.needham-at-btconnect.com>]

Frank

It was more to highlight what motor these scooters used.
The scooters are easily available cheaply [ or free ] second hand when the 
kiddies abuse the batteries so they die.
The cost of replacement batteries is usually more than they paid for the 
scooter ! so they get dumped.

Paul

At 15:31 14/09/2004, you wrote:
>paul needham wrote:
>
>>Hi all
>>I found one of those kids ride on scooters dumped on the back lane.
>>Taking it apart it had a 24v 80 watt motor MY6812A made by this firm
>>http://www.unitemotor.com <http://www.unitemotor.com/>
>
>I'm not sure if that specific motor is strong enough or not, but that 
>company has some other motors to choose from with different RPMs and max 
>watts, including one with 250W -at- 24v running at 400 RPMs.  Depending on 
>the price and size, that might be a good candidate.
>
>Now the hard part, find a local distributor, get a price quote and gamble 
>on a pair of them.  So, who'd like to step up to the table and roll the 
>dice ;-)
>
>         Frank "You Gotta Play To Win" Pittelli