At 04:25 PM 8/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
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>Feedback is what you need.  Simply sense the RPM and control it with PWM.
>You will get close to the full torque at any RPM.  At slow speeds however,
>you will not have the benefit of the armatures inertia.  For momentarily
>applied loads this often get confused with torque.

Rather than going to the trouble and cost of a tachometer, simply
measuring the armature current allows you to boost the voltage to
compensate.

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