RE: [GrizHFMinimill] Treadmill motor with stock controller?

I do have that sensor on mine but it works just fine with just the M60 and no other board hooked up. I ran it for a couple min clamped into a vise hooked up to the M60, no issues, just slow on responsiveness.

Oliver Fick <ofick@bendbroadband.com> wrote:

>I have run into this problem, too. Some treadmills have an optical or
>magnetic rotation sensor on the belt drive roller. If this is not
>functioning or is disconnected from the controller card the motor will start
>but will turn soon turn off. You need to trace out the circuit and disable
>this on the controller in such a way that it thinks the sensor is working.
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>I would give you more specifics but my motor has been set aside for a while
>and it would take me some time to dig out the full details.
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>I hope this is hepful.
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>Subject: [GrizHFMinimill] Treadmill motor with stock controller?
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>For those out there that have used a treadmill motor on their mini mill, did
>you try it with the stock mill board? I tried mine and it would turn on for
>a few seconds and then shut down. I don't know a whole lot about electronics
>on these boards and was looking for ideas. I haven't tried playing with the
>speed pots at all, don't know if it will matter. My motor is a 2.25
>treadmill duty 4 wire (2 blue) and works fine with the M60 controller. I
>don't like how the M60 speeds up and slow down so slow though. Any one have
>any experience?
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