Tore an AC motor out of an OLD SCHOOL cassette tape changer. It has three leads, red, blue, yellow... Tried all conbonations with a 120v whip. Some did nothing others made it humm... That's about it... Wondering how I can find out how to drive this baby???
I would not be surprised if you didn't burn the motor coilup by putting 120 volts to it. In most cases, electronic equipment motors are operated on low voltage DC power from a power supply in the equipment. I assume when you say 'whip' you are speaking of some sort of 120 volts wiring device. I've never used that term in that sense. TexMav
dont understand if this is sturdy yet often the brown is the capacitor cord, black is the extreme velocity, pink is low velocity and yellow is med velocity with white being the time-honored cord. With yours having a diverse coloration code i'm undecided in spite of if that's this way or in case you have a 220 motor as a substitute of a one hundred ten. think of i could get on Emerson sight and notice in case you will detect the motor to confirm a thank you to hook it up as diverse agencies could use diverse colorings.
ya motor could very well be a stepping motor run by a chip that supplies a pulsed supply around the 3 wires which it reverses by reversing the pulses similar to a lightchaser if you wish to go into this further try googling this chip- SAA 1027
Red blue yellow are the colours for 3-phase AC, so it may be a small 3-phase squirrel-cage induction motor wired in delta. If it has a star connection it would have a 4th neutral wire. The fact that it hummed but wouldn't turn with a single-phase supply supports this idea. The 3-phase supply is probably derived electronically inside the tape changer, and would also be variable frequency to provide precise motor speed conrol. So unfortunately unless you have a 3-phase supply available, or an electronic variable speed drive controller, it may not be so easy to get it going.
