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Dryer motor with VFD or lectric pwr steering Anyone hack one of these?
Junk yard shopping today, I looked it a small electric motor with
probably a VFD attached. It looked small, like a clothes dryer motor with about a 1" serpentine pulley on the shaft. A label stated washing machine motor, 3phase, 6.something LRA, made in china. I don't have the expertise, but it would be cool to decipher the inputs and use it for a fractional hp VFD motor or neater yet with encoder feedback to the hacked vfd as a hobbyist cnc closed loop ac servo . On a different servo motor topic, I often see electric power steering columns in the scrap box. They have worm gear drive PM DC motors and controller on the column, and maybe a strain Gage feed back sensor. I think hacked these would make good hobby cnc servo drives. I put a steering column in a vice and a vice grip on the steering wheel spline and I couldn't turn turn it. The worm gear ratio must have such that It would lock. Must have been an exciting failure in the vehicle. A regular motor buying tip. If the connecting wires ends are carefully undone, the motor is bad and being replaced. If the wires, conduit were snipped, sawed off, the motor was removed from equipment that was scrapped, taken out of service. |
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