Juno: New Origins | Electric Motor too much power?

I use the smallest (!!!) electric motor two times on a big plane that has a mass of about 1 tons, I found out that I can carry that weight at about 1150 kilometers with a command disc that has a mass of 170 kilos. Additionaly I made investigations on several field studies with length, width and angles of the blades of propeller.

My question: the motor seems to me extremely powerful, I would recommend to reduce power of electric motors to one third or less ? In my eyes they are op.
The bigger the motor the bigger the blades can be to receive more power but receiving weight too because of the size of the motor. I just tested the smallest motor and he is extremely powerful...
kind regards

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27 BeyondDroo

Yes, it has to be reduced.
Currently it's easy to make a plane flying at mach 1 by attaching motor on another motor,and the problem is that it can fly for an extremely long distance with some batteries.That is much more powerful than jets.

+0 one year ago
15 brause

Cool plane that solar plane :D

https://www.simplerockets.com/c/11L6EE/Explorer

my plane has no big wings - it is equipped with 4 jet engines, very small wings and 2 props. The electric props are useful for exploration tasks, nearly 100 m/s velocity and no energy problems...? this is cool, id like to have fast hybrid jet carried with two electric props in real life, this seems to be not that realistic in my eyes to be honest? But it would be quiet cool

+0 1.1 years ago
2,040 Frolonov

It's the wing that would violate conservation of energy at high angle of attack.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2958846905

In this screenshot, 2 motors using 58000 W power, but the craft weights 4650 kg and cruising with drag loss 0.55 m/s^2, so drag force = 4650*0.55 = 2557N.

Since thrust = drag at cruise and cruising speed is 290 m/s , that means propulsion power is 2557*290 = 741530 W, which is way more than the motor power 58000 W.

+0 1.1 years ago

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