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HDD as a motor. - Keyreaper - 10-04-2009
Help! I need to figure out how to set up a HDD motor (stepper) to work, but i'm really clueless wen it comes to this, also i want to do it with just 4 AA batteries. If someone could find a video explaining how to do it, that would be helpful.
RE: HDD as a motor. - Raptor Jesus - 10-04-2009
Motor for what though? Steppers have to be operated through ASM I think.
RE: HDD as a motor. - Keyreaper - 10-04-2009
True but there are Stepper Motor Controllers pretty small out there. Think I should use that, and its for a vehicle that i'm building. School project. Goes a certain distance, as fast as it can. With that in mind a 7,200 rpm motor would do me nice. Only if I could get it moving.
RE: HDD as a motor. - Raptor Jesus - 10-04-2009
(10-04-2009, 01:26 PM)Keyreaper Wrote: True but there are Stepper Motor Controllers pretty small out there. Think I should use that, and its for a vehicle that i'm building. School project. Goes a certain distance, as fast as it can. With that in mind a 7,200 rpm motor would do me nice. Only if I could get it moving.
Well, you could use a small programmable controller and use ASM to make it run continuously or something.
RE: HDD as a motor. - Alex - 10-05-2009
(10-04-2009, 01:26 PM)Keyreaper Wrote: True but there are Stepper Motor Controllers pretty small out there. Think I should use that, and its for a vehicle that i'm building. School project. Goes a certain distance, as fast as it can. With that in mind a 7,200 rpm motor would do me nice. Only if I could get it moving.
Yes, but when it's going at 7,200 rpms it has pretty much no friction and a tiny amount of weight behind it. It's not made for vehicles.
RE: HDD as a motor. - Etheryte - 10-05-2009
A HDD might have insufficient power, it's only designed to move the disk itself. If I were to build a super fast mini-vehicle, I'd try tearing apart an angle grinder and see where I could go from there as they are extremely powerful. That would need a heck of a power supply, though.
RE: HDD as a motor. - St0rmW1nd - 10-05-2009
You want to use a hard drive to power a car? That was my first thought lmao
RE: HDD as a motor. - Raptor Jesus - 10-05-2009
Like they said, the stepper motor has almost no torque behind it so anything heavier than an HD platter will make it not move.
RE: HDD as a motor. - Fallen - 10-07-2009
That angle grinder looks vicious, I would try to find one of them lol
RE: HDD as a motor. - dragonx - 10-08-2009
ANGLE GRINDERS ARE DANGEROUS do not play with em u can cut ur hands off with it