Re: DC Treadmill motor for servo?

The treadmill motors are brush type; I think the encoders have
pulse and direction outputs, but haven't looked for a while.
Thanks for the reply - it's obvious I should look down this
path some more / mark

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Doug Fortune <pentam@h...> wrote:
> mark wrote:
> >
> > Have a couple of the Permanent Magnet type, and some of the
Electronic
> > Goldmine encoders..... How would these go together with a Gecko
3XX?
> > /mark
>
> If those encoders are the ones on the
> Shinano Kenshi LA052-040E4N02 (40 Watt?) BLDC
> (brushless DC) motors,
>
> then I believe this is the pinout (credit due to Brian):
>
> orange w red - /B +5V
> orange w black - G GND
> pink w red - /Z signal A
> pink w black - /A signal B
> yellow w red - /R signal Z
> yellow w black - S signal C1
> grey w red - /P signal C2
> grey w black - /Q signal C3
> black no conn shield
>
> I think A & B are your two quadrature signals,
> Z is your one-pulse/rev index signal, and
> C1,C2,C3 are hall effect signals to feed
> a brushless motor controller.
>
> As a side note, I think Mariss was working on
> a brushless motor controller last fall for
> exactly this motor/enocoder combination.
>
> Using the treadmill motor should work great using G3xx
> (although it is a 120VDC motor, it runs with
> great vigor directly connected to my 75VDC supply).
>
> Doug Fortune
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