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Old November 22nd, 2007, 01:01 AM
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Default Re: How do i choose the correct motor?

RPM and torque are two different things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM

You can have a huge amount of rpm's but if you don't have enough torque you'll just burn up the motor.
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