[EVDL] Cheap DC motor control anyone?

2018-01-23 Thread David Chapman via EV
Working on a belt sander project using a 130V PMDC motor off a treadmill. The control board got crushed so I need a simple cheap adjustable speed control. Anyone have something laying around they want to get rid of? Need 115Vac input. Thanks Dach. "Do what you can, with what you have, where you

Re: [EVDL] Cheap DC motor control anyone?

2018-01-23 Thread Lee Hart via EV
David Chapman via EV wrote: Working on a belt sander project using a 130V PMDC motor off a treadmill. The control board got crushed so I need a simple cheap adjustable speed control. Anyone have something laying around they want to get rid of? Need 115Vac input. Thanks Dach. "Do what you can,

Re: [EVDL] Cheap DC motor control anyone?

2018-01-24 Thread Jan Steinman via EV
> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:59:48 + (UTC) > > Working on a belt sander project using a 130V PMDC motor off a treadmill. The > control board got crushed so I need a simple cheap adjustable speed control. > Anyone have something laying around they want to get rid of? Need 115Vac > input. Than

Re: [EVDL] Cheap DC motor control anyone?

2018-01-24 Thread Lee Hart via EV
Jan Steinman via EV wrote: Is this permanent, or temporary/intermittent use? That's important, because while most treadmill motors have high advertised horsepower; in fact, they rarely deliver even a small fraction of that. I’d put a full-wave bridge rectifier as close to the motor as possib

Re: [EVDL] Cheap DC motor control anyone?

2018-01-25 Thread David Chapman via EV
Jan, thanks for the input on this. Lee I really appreciate the lead on the GE handbook, I downloaded it and indeed that circuit on pg 293 looks perfect for this project;  I am kind of helping / mentoring a friend of one of my sons with his project and he doesn't have anything for money so its a

Re: [EVDL] Cheap DC motor control anyone?

2018-01-26 Thread Lee Hart via EV
David Chapman via EV wrote: Jan, thanks for the input on this. Lee I really appreciate the lead on the GE handbook, I downloaded it and indeed that circuit on pg 293 looks perfect for this project... One question tho, you said something about it needing a capacitor and looking at the schemati

Re: [EVDL] Cheap DC motor control anyone?

2018-01-26 Thread Jan Steinman via EV
> From: Lee Hart > > David Chapman via EV wrote: >> Lee I really appreciate the lead >> on the GE handbook, I downloaded it and indeed that circuit on pg 293 >> looks perfect for this project… So, it sounds like one of the goals of the project is to put something together from components? Beca

Re: [EVDL] Cheap DC motor control anyone?

2018-01-27 Thread ROBERT via EV
for a controller that works forget a one off design. From: EV on behalf of Jan Steinman via EV Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 4:58 PM To: ev@lists.evdl.org Cc: Jan Steinman Subject: Re: [EVDL] Cheap DC motor control anyone? > From: Lee Hart > &