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  1. #21
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    May 2015
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    Re: Treadmill motor/drive help

    Quote Originally Posted by Al_The_Man View Post
    His link just pointed to DC motors!?
    IK,R? I went up their page menu from there to DC motors to controllers and found USD264 was the cheapest reversible one they had.

    Quote Originally Posted by Al_The_Man View Post
    But around here on the local market sites, there is at least one treadmill every week not working-free pick up, usually the motor is OK and the MC2100 PWM controller is used in quite a few.
    So I agree it is not a bad means of general purpose spindle, once upon a time, DC spindles were virtually the norm.
    Al.
    There might be better ways of doing a motor with a bit of go and speed control (even looking at a heavy duty hobby BLDC motor and an O-Drive), but I doubt you'd find cheaper than the trusty old treadmill.

  2. #22
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    May 2013
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    Re: Treadmill motor/drive help

    Treadmill motors are setup like RC car brush motor with the brushes advanced or retard in relation to the permanent magnets.
    I think the brush mount needs modifying to have zero advance for equal performance in forward or reverse.
    Wisdom results from foolishness!

  3. #23
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    Re: Treadmill motor/drive help

    Quote Originally Posted by Al_The_Man View Post
    It is the MC2100 that requires a 20Hz PWM signal to run, I have built a Picmicro that runs these with STOP/START PB's.
    Also there is a resister you can remove if you don't want the feature that requires you set the pot to zero before going into run.
    Al.
    I have the MC2100. I'd like to disable the feature that requires you to set the pot to zero before going into run. Which resistor do I need to remove.
    "You can't teach stuff in a school that you would learn in real life unless the real life people are in charge of the school." - Gene Sherman

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