I was lucky enough to be home on a Tuesday night, so I tried to run some tests on the pulse motor. I took out the top coil and set it on the bench, did some tests with a battery and my 1" neosphere. I took one of the sets of 3 paths in series and powered it, magnet jumped some. Added the other set of 3 in series, now 6 in series. Magnet jumped more. Set up arduino with hall sensor, found a bad connection on my output terminal. :( Fixed that, got the magnet spinning with the hall sensor. :cool: It didnt spin very fast, and the frequency PWM stuff I added seemed to be slowing it. I went to go get my 1/4" neosphere to test to see if it would go faster. Came back to find my arduino is locked tight, can't talk through the USB/serial, and the program isnt running. :dodgy: I guess I better build an optoisolator circuit. :P
My list of rebuilding and redesigning is growing. lol Time to split this into two different projects. :D I need more wraps on my coils for sure. Lucky I can print new ones and keep these. :idea:
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