[SML] Cheapie DC motor controlled by PWM?

[Jon Ares]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> The easiest motors to speed control are DC brushed.  Not brushless, WITH
> brushes.  Speed/direction control is simple.  If you have a DC dimmer that
> works at the motor voltage, you're there.  Add a DPDT relay to a second
> channel on the dimmer set to non-dim and you have direction control.
>
> For small motors that spin fast with little torque, look at N-20 size.  For
> slow with power, that same N-20 with a gearbox works well.  I recently
> designed one into a product and have to run the motor at way lower than full
> power so it doesn't break anything.

Thanks Jerry - big help... much appreciated. My only experience with
baby motors has been tearing them apart as a little kid, cuz.... I
could.

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