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Daniel
Member Since:
September 24, 2008
Gender:
Male
Country:
New Zealand
Organizations:
Schemeaddicts Limited
Current Role:
Director / Engineer
Spoken Languages:
English
Programming Languages:
C, C++, C#
Interests or Hobbies:
Electronics
R/C Aircraft
No public wish lists :(
Product TOL-10326 | about 4 months ago
I had a mental fade moment and brought one of these things (we run 230v over here). Feeling pretty stupid about it, I decided to hack it. I opened it up hoping the manufacturer would have designed it for both 110v and 220-240v and just wired it for 110. sadly no. but what i noticed is that the motor has a rectifier in front of it. ie a high voltage dc motor. so i wondered… what about just putting a power diode in series with the AC lines in… so it would cut off half the AC waveform. That seems to work!. i would not recommend this as proper solution as the motor will be getting double its voltage for half the time. Also noticed that it overheats easier than it should (prob motor not running as fast as it should)
Product GPS-08146 | about 8 months ago
what happened to the module itself? it appears you are not selling it by itself.