What power supply should i use for my electric motor?

Question

I have a 130 volt 13.8 amp 2.5 horsepower dc motor. I wanted to use this for a small go kart or something of this nature. Where will i get a suitable battery for this application?

Answer 1

If it's DC - stick a 12 V Dc car battery on it and see what happens.

You are not going to get a 120V rectified supply to it, but you could get 24 or 36V.  

Answer 2

That will take a big battery, 130 volts 14 amps is 1.8 kW. A large auto battery can hold about 1 kW-hour, so it could power this for about 30 minutes.

At 130 volts DC, you need a large DC-DC converter to convert 12 VDC to 130 VDC. Or you can use 2 or 4 12 volt batteries in series to generate 24 or 48 volts DC, which you can then apply to the DC-DC converter.

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Answer 3

Use a car battery, with DC-DC converter, and a solid state motor control.