You can salvage some nice motors out of optical drives but they can be tricky to control. That’s because brushless DC motors require carefully timed signals used in a process called Electronic ...

The load allowed the DC-51 motor speed controller current limit preset to be adjusted. As the control was working right down one end (max is 4A and the motor max is 0.9A), and is very light in action ...

It is a Clarke DCM10, a variant of Sieg’s X1, sometimes knows as a ‘micro mill’. Mine has a ~230V 150W brushed dc motor that needs driving from 240Vac mains power. Almost randomly, I settled on a ...