On 27/01/2008 Lord Garth wrote:

This motor apparently has 3 coils with one end common to
all three. The motor came from a Western Digital drive. Does
anybody know the pulse pattern to the coils?

Nidec will never reveal nothing.

Plenty of information about brushless DC motors on the wibble thingy.
Best to start he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushle...electric_motor


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Hmmm, just like Gaffer Tape then.