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Treadmill motor / generator in the air at last !
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Re: Treadmill motor / generator in the air at last
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by CmeBREW (
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You really know your motors Tecker,
You are very right. One of the wires did fall off soon after I received it. (a design error no doubt by them) I simply soldered BOTH wires back. I wrapped the wire around the wire that comes from the brush and soldered it. No big deal- only took a few minutes since soldering is so easy. There was one more little design error I forgot to mention in my main post. The front of the motor is not secured well enough for high torque situations. (the whole front that houses the front bearing will actually 'shift' or move or turn one way or the other since there is no notch to hold it in place to the main body of the motor. This must be secured if one is going to use it as a windmill due to the extreme torque conditions.(especially if one intends to make the 'magnet cog reducer' in the front) What I did was tap a 3/16" bolt in the main housing up near the front to keep one of the two long bolts (that go thru the entire motor) from moving and thus the front could not move anymore in the counterclockwise direction. (thats the direction the 4' rotor turns) Other than that, it makes a nice wind turbine.
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