The end of the Electric Chair

[Fiddlehead44]

My Father-in-law had an electric chair(electric lift)as he had a stroke

and couldn't stand on his own. Well he is gone now.( God rest his sole)

and I have the chair to get rid of.It opperates on 110v and has a reverse

for up and down. The end of the small motor has gears built in for torque

and slow speed. It also has an external capacitor.

   I want to build a small wind charger from this motor and need some advise

It is small. the length of the stator is 3" and diameter of the inside is 2"

The rotor is 1.5" long by 1 7/8" dia.

It has 24 slots with 8 coils mounted on 6 slot intervals. The wires out are white, black and red, with 2 blue ones on the other side.(I think they went directly to the capaciter.}

I want to make electricity with no goals in mind. Simply to see if I can.

I plan to grind 6 flat surfaces on the rotor and mount Hard drive magnets.

Will this work?

FLASHING LEDS would be nice or anything that shows electricity when the

wind is blowing  Thanks all. Fiddlehead....

[whatsnext]

Hopefully you meant "god rest his soul".

[dinges]

Personally, I'd try selling the chair or even donating it to someone who needs it. To me it seems a waste to dismember such a potentially useful piece of equipment just to have the motor. Motors are plentiful & free for the taking, whilst this kind of aid could really change or improve someone's life. But it's not me to decide what to do with that chair/lift, of course.

It's hard to tell in this picture, but there probably is a bigger winding and a smaller one, the starter-winding (which should be connected to the capacitor, via blue wires). That would probably mean not all slots are the same depth? What RPMs does the motor work at? (you need that to determine # of poles).

Have you read Zubbly's articles on motor conversions?

http://www.otherpower.com/images/scimages/4/z_conversion_all.pdf

Will be following this thread with interest. Guess we'll all be holding our breath till Zubbly shows up

[Fiddlehead44]

YES.... I do mean "god rest his soul". SORRY. The chair is broken

and badly soiled. It is of no use to anyone. The coils all seem to

be the same size and also wire size seems to be constant.I'm not

sure as to how many magnets to try. ...Fiddlehead

[RP]

Look for a nameplate on the motor.  If you tell us its rated rpm, someone can tell you how many poles it's designed for and therefore how many magnets you'll need.

[hiker]

try hookin a batt[12volt auto batt or 12v trasfomer-just for a short time] to the white and blk wires[or red and blk] and see what coils are powered up ..hold a small mag in your hand and hold it down inside the motor.you will be able to feel which mags are powered up-and which ones that are not..

if all four big coils are powered up then you have a single phase motor--just use 4 mags..do the same for the smaller starter coils..

hook up one bridged rect to the two output wires of each set of 4 coils..then hook the dc output of each rect togeather plus to plus negative to negative--those will be your two  power out leads + and -

[ghurd]

The rotor looks a little different, where there is only steel there is usually stripes.

The wire count has me thrown too.

It sounds like a 4 pole motor to me, until Zubbly or someone says otherwise.

It takes 4 magnets. I would expect about half an amp at 12V, and higher watts at higher volts, but I don't do it as well as many others.

Did you ohm out the wires?

'Avoid' HD magnets unless this is just for a fun first time.

Anyway.  Should easy get past just lighting LEDs.

G-