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Yes we are planning on using big tyres, and our radius is 50m

My mistake with the numbers i didn't have access to exact numbers of our project when writing this thread so I used approximations, here are my workings: The time to accelerate is 240 s The angular velocity is 0.00433 rad/s The inertia is 4.3*109 Therefore the torque needed is 77500 Nm approx...

Yes we are going to have 5 10,000 Nm motors each connected to 4-5 tyres

I understand but our acceleration is tiny, the wheel runs at 1 revolution per 24.17 minutes and an acceleration time of around 3 minutes, giving an angular acceleration of something like 10^-5 if I remember right.

The plan is to split the 10,000 between 4-5 tyres

If I need 50,000 Nm of torque to rotate a wheel, and I am rotating it about its rim (like the London eye), would 5 10,000 Nm motors each connected to a set of tyres to rotate it (the motors are not connected to each other), or would these motors first need to be connected to each other and then...