InVancouver
- Apr 4, 2012
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I have a very small motor that I took out of the tray drive of an old 3.5 floppy drive (or it could have come from the car audio cd player... can't be sure now which one I salvaged this part from).
The motor is attached to a plastic housing that contains a gear. The motor housing has four wires... two wires that go directly to the motor... and two go to the gear box. I was able to power the motor from the two obvious wires using the 5V from my arduino.
I thought the other two wires on the gear box must be a solenoid to reverse gear direction (open and close tray)... so I tried 1.5v, 5v, 9v, and 12v in each direction... however the direction of the gear does not change.
Maybe I am wrong about what this part is?
Or maybe I am using it wrong?
I cant find the part on google... Y172 C844B
Can anyone help me get this part to function?
Also... is there a place to upload photos in this forum?
The motor is attached to a plastic housing that contains a gear. The motor housing has four wires... two wires that go directly to the motor... and two go to the gear box. I was able to power the motor from the two obvious wires using the 5V from my arduino.
I thought the other two wires on the gear box must be a solenoid to reverse gear direction (open and close tray)... so I tried 1.5v, 5v, 9v, and 12v in each direction... however the direction of the gear does not change.
Maybe I am wrong about what this part is?
Or maybe I am using it wrong?
I cant find the part on google... Y172 C844B
Can anyone help me get this part to function?
Also... is there a place to upload photos in this forum?