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Ev Archive for February 2000
1048 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:47:42 2001

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Re: Determining Motor HP



> 
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 COINARIAN@aol.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Picked up a neat 24V motor the other day, and there is no rating tag. 
> 
> What sort of motor is it?  How many wires are there?  Does it have 
> permanent magnets and what is the terminal resistance - assumming it has 
> two wires?
> 
Does a PM motor not have brushes?  I ask this because I opened up a
non-working motor today on a very large industrial fan to check the brushes,
and there were none.  Instead of "normal" fields mounted on the case,  there
is what looks very much like the same layout as the rotor.  
Michael B.