On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, 1:23 PM Carl Nobile via TriEmbed <[email protected]> wrote:
> From the label, it looks like a brushed motor which would be much easier > than a DC brushless motor however brushed motors only have two wires, the > third may be a sensor wire to the control circuitry in the laptop could > change the speed of the motor. > With that said, you would just need a 5V DC supply to power it. If you > want it to have variable speed control you would need a PWM circuit which > you can set up with an Arduino or an RPI. > ~Carl > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 1:15 PM Pete Soper via TriEmbed < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I pulled a fan/heatpipe assembly out of a laptop to have for future >> experiments and wonder what sort of control I need for it's three wire >> motor connection? Here's the label on the outside. The DC resistance >> between any two pins with any polarity is much higher than I would have >> expected: thousands of ohms. >> Thanks, >> Pete >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list >> >> To post message: [email protected] >> List info: >> http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org >> TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org >> To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: >> [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe >> >> > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Carl J. Nobile (Software Engineer) > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > >
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