MXUS 3000 Hub Motor - V1 V2 V3

I suspect more people read this forum in China than we give credit...
 
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ok so heres the REAL mini cro, guys. just incase anyone wants to find one... :D
 
Hey guys, does anyone know the spoke count for this motor? as well how thick they can be, 12 gauge? What is the diameter of this motor. I am trying to use this calculator to see what spokes I need for a 17 inch rim. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

http://www.ebikes.ca/tools/spoke-calc.html
 
The real minicro sure is interesting, and I've been getting in quite a lather over it.
But with the mammoth 273mm radius and narrower stator, I'm not sure now that it's going to be an order of magnitude better.

From memory, torque is linear to magnet width, and proportional to the square of the radius from memory. It should have a lot of pull with that radius, but making it remotely discrete is going to be like hiding a corpse under the front doormat :p

It is about a kilo lighter though...

I'm thinking I will keep pushing on with the Mxus. A bargain for the money.
 
Willow said:
The drawing shows the wiring exiting the through the rubber cap at the end of the axle - this is not correct... the wiring exits from the flat side of the axle - just like the crystalytes. Drawing may have been done for a hollow axle setup.

I noticed the error also. The Cables do indeed come out of the axle near the bearing.
 
Yes, v2 prototype received. But the winter came in October in Moscow this year. It is rather cold driving 70-75kmh for a long time now so we can't make such test. So the hill test is all we managed to do. I hope it will be a bit warmer this week.

I noticed a much better cooling. That is what we wanted with Al stator.
 
@e4bike.ru
The problem I see on the axle is that it's flat part which going through the cover bearings has very small diameter = 16mm. This makes 2 problems:
1. only 1mm edge around the axle. So you have to put 3mm thick or larger steel washer between this edge and the dropout. Otherwise aluminum frame or smaller washer would not withstand. This adds to minimum dropout width at least 6mm, so 135mm+6mm=141mm...

2. hole for the cables is too small for bigger phase wires for the same reason, they can't drill large hole in small diameter axle

If you only could make the flat axle diameter 20mm or more it would solve those 2 problems easily. How you think of this change?
 

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e4bike.ru said:
We have clients who use usual aluminum frames and no such problem ever happened. We always warn of using good torque arms that can prevent the axle of moving. Otherwise this motor will break the dropout before scratching it. Such modification will increase the weight. Also new bearings should be used. And the covers should be modified. This will definitely increase the price. I really don't think that such problem can occur if good torque arm is used.

13AWG phase wires are used in v2. The phase current in the hills video was set to 180A for the first part and then set to 220A. I never had any problems with such wires with 4T motor. The PP30-45A Andersons will melt first but no problems with them either. The 3T version will have problems with 13AWG phase wires, that is why we don't offer it.

It's not even a problem of usage of torque arms. Axle would be pulled throught dropouts by tightening wheel nuts, and 1mm edge for the aluminum is nothing to be stripped by sharp steel edge.
If you put torque arms between motor axle and dropout - then yes, I agree, because it would be used as both huge washer and torque arm itself. But then you need 150mm dropouts...

Even if 2.5mm2 phase wires are not melting instantly out of 180 Amps it gives you a voltage drop of around 7-10% and compareable heat losses... Which brings down effectiveness of the motor significantly, not even talking about reliability...
 
stepan said:
@e4bike.ru If you only could make the flat axle diameter 20mm or more it would solve those 2 problems easily. How you think of this change?
I agree this would fix 2 of the biggest problems for hot rodders,# 1 axle breakage/ twisting and # 2 phase wires melting... having a big enough channel to upgrade to 10 awg phase wires would be a dream come true, what is the axle steel grade.
 
e4bike.ru said:
I will talk with MXUS about such axle and cover mod. This can take some time. We are preparing a new controller now and it takes much time also.
That would be great!
For example, hallomotor and conhismotor have 1500W motor with 20mm diameter axle
BTW, this motor has 35mm magnets and suits into 135mm dropouts, also 2.5mm2 phase wires. Too bad it has very high kv and overheat pretty easily inside my 26inch wheel.
Attached some of my pictures of the hallomotor insides ;)
 

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e4bike.ru said:
I will talk with MXUS about such axle and cover mod. This can take some time. We are preparing a new controller now and it takes much time also.

If you really think of an axle and cover mod, do it perfect and make a second outlet for water cooling tubes. :)
maybe it is possible to still install a brake rotor with the second outlet.

What about M18 on the chain side for torque transfer and M14 on the wire (and water cooling tubes) side?
 
Allex said:
So cromotor mini 10kg and big brother is 11kg.
Almost no difference. :9 Might as well get the big one =)

the 10kg was with strong rim and big spokes.
the difference to V1 was stated to be +300g, so the motor only should weight about 8,3kg.
thats would be 3kg less than cromotor which is not bad..

@ e4bike.ru

what is the max RPM of this V2 motor before eddy losses become to big?
 
Since the lamination are the same width as original v2-v3 Cromotor such RPM should be similar. I can try to measure such loses if you can give me some instructions just to be sure the results corresponds.
 
e4bike.ru said:
Since the lamination are the same width as original v2-v3 Cromotor such RPM should be similar. I can try to measure such loses if you can give me some instructions just to be sure the results corresponds.

yes it should be similar to original cromotor.
as far as i know its mainly about comparing no-load power consumption at different voltages (only motor without wheel). if its low and linear to volts (im not dead sure if linear?), its ok. if it starts to get bigger and bigger than usual, its bad. that voltage point or RPM would be interesting.
 
Willow said:
Allex said:
So cromotor mini 10kg and big brother is 11kg.
Almost no difference. :9 Might as well get the big one =)

yep.

10kg is with laced rim!
 
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