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Originally Posted by Excaliber
Now THATS what I'm talking about! That starter gonna do what it has to do, cable be damed, melt that sucker if it has too.  |
No, your DC starter motor doesn't "take what it wants," it uses what it's given. You can actually vary the speed of a DC motor by just using a large enough potentiometer. In that case, the motor doesn't say
"Oh, I see you've turned up the potentiometer but I'm still going to rip more current through it and spin at top speed anyway." (And the torque of a DC motor is also proportional to the current that it's drawing.)