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Offline XOIIOTopic starter

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Free treadmill, worth grabing for the motor?
« on: April 20, 2014, 12:55:40 pm »
An opportunity to get a free, apparently working treadmill has popped up, I'd have to store it in a garage for a while until I could take it apart, but do you guys think it would be worth grabbing the motor/motor driver from? I figure it would be a pretty good high torque motor.

Only problem I see arising is it needs a trip to the dump later after I grab all the electronics out of it, and I'm guessing they are somewhat heavy, not sure if one person can move them around easily.
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Offline Skimask

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Re: Free treadmill, worth grabing for the motor?
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2014, 12:59:03 pm »
The 2 I've scavenged have had DC motors in them rated at 90VDC.  I'd have to go look to find the wattage/HP rating though.
And not much of a driver in these 2.  A TRIAC driver circuit feeding a fullwave rectifier feeding the motor in both of them.
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Re: Free treadmill, worth grabing for the motor?
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2014, 01:02:02 pm »
Quote from: Skimask on April 20, 2014, 12:59:03 pm
The 2 I've scavenged have had DC motors in them rated at 90VDC.  I'd have to go look to find the wattage/HP rating though.
And not much of a driver in these 2.  A TRIAC driver circuit feeding a fullwave rectifier feeding the motor in both of them.

Have you come up with any good uses for them?

What immediately comes to mind is a DIY go cart, but I don't really have an interest or the resources for that.
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Offline amyk

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Re: Free treadmill, worth grabing for the motor?
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2014, 02:08:48 pm »
Flip upside-down and add a steerable front wheel...
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Re: Free treadmill, worth grabing for the motor?
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2014, 02:25:07 pm »
Quote from: amyk on April 20, 2014, 02:08:48 pm
Flip upside-down and add a steerable front wheel...

Lol, that would be hilarious.
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Re: Free treadmill, worth grabing for the motor?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2014, 02:54:21 pm »
Probably that motor wouldn't work well for a go cart because it isn't designed to take off under load since you're actually running along with it rather than sitting on it.
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Re: Free treadmill, worth grabing for the motor?
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2014, 03:51:29 pm »
Treadmill motors are apparently good for repurposing into small windmill generators.
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Re: Free treadmill, worth grabing for the motor?
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2014, 05:28:19 pm »
If it is free take it, and spend an evening turning it into 3 piles of steel, copper and aluminium alloy, and go to the local scrapyard and get a little pocket money out of it. Last time i did that it was a server rack, and it was 80kg of steel and aluminium extrusion, which was pretty good money at the scrapyard. Was 200kg of other metal scrap there as well so that too was a good extra.
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