{"id":262,"date":"2009-11-29T23:32:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T06:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2009-11-29T23:32:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T06:32:14","slug":"powerful-pancakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/powerful-pancakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Pancakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astli.com\/motor_products.html\">AST, Automation Source Technologies<\/a>, has a line of compact &#8220;pancake&#8221; motors that are of interest to those designing electric aircraft. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astli.com\/cds_series.html\">CDS Series <\/a>have power outputs ranging up to 21 kW, efficiencies up to 93.2 percent, and weights of no more than 21 kg. The CDS 150,\u00a0largest in the line, can be either water or air-cooled, handles inputs from 24 to 96 Volts DC, and operates at 1,000 to 6,000 rpm. High torque peaks, and a three to four times overload capacity might make this eight-pole series worthy of consideration.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_263\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"size-full wp-image-263\" title=\"cd_series3\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/cd_series3.gif\" alt=\"Compact nature of CDS Series from AST is revealed\" width=\"200\" height=\"207\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Compact nature of CDS Series from AST is revealed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u3000 <\/p>\n<div id=\"facebook_like\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcafe.foundation%2Fblog%2Fpowerful-pancakes%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=500&amp;action=like&amp;font=segoe+ui&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AST, Automation Source Technologies, has a line of compact &#8220;pancake&#8221; motors that are of interest to those designing electric aircraft. 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