So my old fan died a few years back, and I only just got around to replacing it... well, actually, just taking it down: I'll put up the replacement tomm. (that's why I was off: its in this room, so I shut down my main computers).
Anyways, now I have this giant motor. [the motor works, its the fan's electronic controls that died: there were two large plain green cylinders, either bizarre capacitors or unmarked resistors, as well as a blown capacitor (it leaked due to hydrogen over-pressurization caused by a faulty electrolyte) that had killed it: well, actually the two green things igniting the circuit board were the main reason of death: the capacitor would have had total failure soon afterwards, and that would have killed it too.] [I seem to have real issues with electronics catching on fire/overheating >.> ]
So this motor runs on 120V AC, 1amp, maxes out at 200RPM, and is really really big [I've identified the red and white wires: red being the hot, and the white being the neutral, the brown is I believe the RPM sensor's feed and/or control, seeing as the setup is not too different from the CPU fan wiring configurations on some Pentium II's/Celerons that were around from that era. The brown definitly isn't the ground wire - I checked. (the ground wire for the fan was attached to the mount)
Oh.. you could hook it up to a tumbler to polish stones, connect it to a big 'ol lapidary saw and slice geodes in half, stick it on a shelf to collect dust, dig a well in your yard and use it to pump water..
Is it a nice solid piece of work you could hook up to a windmill and turn into a generator? The older motors were.
You could recycle it - there might be a buck worth of copper in there...
Well, you could send it to me, but you're in the UK, right? Shipping costs would be huge I think. There is a thing on Yahoo Groups called Freecycle, you can put it on there (uncheck the box that says to send you an email every time there's a new post, I got >100 a day!).
[schilcote] It doesn't have to be good, it just has to not be "wow is that the only thing you could think of" bad
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[I've identified the red and white wires: red being the hot, and the white being the neutral, the brown is I believe the RPM sensor's feed and/or control, seeing as the setup is not too different from the CPU fan wiring configurations on some Pentium II's/Celerons that were around from that era. The brown definitly isn't the ground wire - I checked. (the ground wire for the fan was attached to the mount)
