What appliances or electronics can I take apart to find a good DC motor to use in wind power experiments?
November 17th, 2008 | by Michael |
Thuja M asked:
I am wondering if I could pick up some piece of trash appliance or electronic gadget at a garage sale and pull a good DC motor out of it to use in experimental wind power projects. The motor would need to contain magnets, and generate a current at relatively low RPM. Do VCR’s or blenders or tape decks or vacuums or shavers or ??? have any good DC motors in them for this kind of application?
Bigger is better…
I am wondering if I could pick up some piece of trash appliance or electronic gadget at a garage sale and pull a good DC motor out of it to use in experimental wind power projects. The motor would need to contain magnets, and generate a current at relatively low RPM. Do VCR’s or blenders or tape decks or vacuums or shavers or ??? have any good DC motors in them for this kind of application?
Bigger is better…
? (to a point.)
I appreciate the answers received so far, excellent ideas! Toy cars, cordless drills and alternators all sound like they are worth experimenting with. I’ve also been reading about treadmill motors, which are a bit bigger and capable of producing more juice! I intend to leave this question up and open until the answers stop coming in, thanks to all contributers.
KRISTOPHER
5 Responses to “What appliances or electronics can I take apart to find a good DC motor to use in wind power experiments?”
By ancient_nerd on Nov 18, 2008 | Reply
Find something that runs off of a battery. AC motors are cheaper. They do not need brushes. So anything that can plug in is probably not using DC.
By mike on Nov 19, 2008 | Reply
toy cars.
MIKE
By AnswerMan on Nov 22, 2008 | Reply
An alternator will come with separate field tape decks vcrs etc do have permanentmagnet motors which use one good news is if you try to an auto junkyard and get permanentmagnet motors which use one but dont think your output you are going to supply field you are not have dc motors are going to have permanentmagnet motor to rewire.
By carol on Nov 22, 2008 | Reply
The drill this is what used for some experiments and had blast and means to propellor the.
The drill this is what used for some experiments and had blast and means to propellor the drill this is what used for some experiments and means to propellor the drill chuck.
For some experiments and means to connect to propellor the drill chuck.
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