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Old 04-17-2009, 10:18 PM
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Interesting, seems like it has very good power to weight ratio approaching 1lb per hp but they are seemingly being used as stationary and fixed load motors.

I imagine the balancing of the torques from the moving parts must have been an interesting task for the engineers and performing all of the harmonic balancing of which I am sure required a slide rule or two.
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