Stall Torque question

Hi Everyone!

I am here to see if anyone can help me determine the stall torque of a specific weight in Kg. I am using a 393 motor for my project which specifications say that it has a stall torque of 1.67 n-m, 14.76lbs (6.695kg) I am assuming this is the maximum load that it can move. What I want to do is find out how much torque is used when moving 730g.

I found this http://imgur.com/8jL7BOT equation on wiki and I am not sure if the s2 means speed (in this case RPM).

Am I approaching this in the wrong way or it as simple as entering the correct values into this equation?

Thanks

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The image you quoted is the units of what a newton-meter is.

A better way to think about torque is that it is a force * distance. If you have your .73kg load, that is about 7.1 Newtons. Now from the definition of the stall torque of the motor, it is able to handle 1.67 N-M. From this we can calculate the distance from the pivot that would be that distance by dividing the load by the torque and we get .23m.
From this we know that the motor will stall if you have your 730 gram load 23 centimeters away from the pivot.

Now with motors stall torque is not everything. As the torque increases, speed (rpm) decreases. So if your motor is 100 rpm free spinning, as soon as you add a load, it is less than this until it reaches 0 rpm when the stall torque is reached.

There is a graph somewhere on the forums of the speed vs torque but I could not find it.

If you need to move your object at a greater distance, you can use gear ratios to multiply your torque, but lose speed in the process.

jpearman has done an amazing job of analyzing this sort of thing:

https://vexforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6427&d=1341809892

Motors give you a torque, not a force. The stall torque for a 393 motor in imperial units is 14.76 inch pounds. That means that if you attach the motor to a wheel with a 1 inch radius, the motor will push on the rim of the wheel with 14.76 pounds of force. If you use a wheel with twice the radius then you will get half the force, and if you use a wheel with half the radius you will get twice as much force.

To know how much torque is used when moving 730g, you need to know value of the radius where the force (730 grams x gravity) is applied. This doesn’t depend on the motor, it’s simply (force)x(radius).

http://maelabs.ucsd.edu/mae156/mae156_f04/Lectures/Lecture3_motors_etc/winch1.gif

If the radius is small, then the motor will easily be able to lift 730g. If the radius is large (20+ cm) then the motor will either be really struggling or just fail to lift the load. At just under half if it’s maximum torque (so at about a 10cm radius) is where a 393 motor will be able to lift a 730g load fastest.

Thanks so much for this guys, I think I have solved it! Can anyone tell me if I have got this right? I will do my best to show my working out.

Pivot Distance (centre of Drive Pinion to pitch centre of Rack Gear) = 8mm (0.315”)

Motor Stall Torque = 1.67Nm (14.76 in-lb)

Load = 1.183 Kg (used to be 730g but had to account for additional weight (2.5 lbs)


A Load of 1.183 Kgs = 11.6N

Torque (in Nm) / Load (Newtons) = Maximium Pivot Dist (m)

1.67 / 11.6 = 0.144m

144mm Maximum Pivot Distance


the pivot distance is 8mm (as shown above)
Therefore:
Torque required to drive the Left-Right Motor Linear Slide is:

Torque (in Nm) / Load (Newtons) = Pivot Distance (m)

Torque / 11.6= 0.008

Torque = 0.008 x 11.6

Torque Required to drive Motor = 0.093 Nm (0.823 in.lbs) !

Thanks.

Torque = 0.008 meter x 11.6 newton

Motor torque Required to drive the mechanism = 0.093 Nm

That looks right to me, but be aware that your actual load must include frictional forces, and for a linear slide, those frictional forces could be significant. Also, don’t forget to consider the weight of the linear slide or whatever else might be moving, if you are driving things vertically, etc.

awesome! Do you have any idea where I can find any official documentation explaining how to work this out? It is for a university project and I need to cite the information.

Thanks again

If you’re talking about how to calculate torque, I would guess that any first-year physics textbook should cover that calculation somewhere. If you’re talking about the torque-speed curve for 393 motors… um… uh… I suppose the following post is as good as it gets (since the data were confirmed by Vex):

ok thank you very much!

How do you convert nm to in-lbs

A nm is a newton-meter. One newton is a force that’s equal to about 0.22481 pounds of force. A meter is equal to about 39.37 inches.

So a nm would be (0.22481 pounds of force)x(39.37 inches) = 8.85 in-lbs.

Example: What’s 7 nm converted into in-lbs? Answer: (7 nm)(8.85 in-lbs/nm) = 61.95 in-lbs.

thanks for the answer. Now, someone posted that I should go higher than 7 in-lbs because i will trip the computer. Is that true and where can I get a good resource on amps? Is there some way to see how much amps Im running on the robot or do I just have to mathematically figure it out on paper? thanks

See this.
Motor torque-speed curves - REV2

TL;DR keep motor revs above 65rpm (when sending full speed command) and you should be ok. Too big of a topic to go into detail this late in the evening, there’s lots of discussion about this topic on the forum.

Do you mind if I ask what college this was for?

It’s for my middle school students.

O woops Narmitz not nalobots.

It being in the same thread I thought you were the thread owner.

I am a teaching assistant for the intro to robotics class at WPI and I had a feeling that the thread owner was one of my students (my family finds the term hilarious).

It’s always nice to see more middle school teams trying to do a little more of the engineering in robotics.