Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #09116
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:42:15 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: yet more motors
Jonathan D Rogers wrote:
> Well, I found my other Sony drive, took the motor out of it, and tested
> it.
> It ran off an old transistor-only solarengine with an NEC 0.047 F cap in
> it pretty well.
> It draws less than 100mA no load at about 1-1.5V.
> These specs seem to be rather similar to a pager motor.
Seems a bit high, usually these are about 20 ma lower or more...
> And now I have two of them!!
> Unfortunately, I have no 1381s on hand, so I'm going down to radio shack
> to buy some flashing LEDs to try out Ben's FLED circuit on these lovely
> little motors.
> No idea who makes them.
Mabucci most likley.
You will probably find that you can use a much larger diameter wheel with
these motors, and get very respectable performance when compated to a direct
drive pager motor 'vore with the same caps and trigger voltage.
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