Sounds like a perfect place for a stepper motor.
Steve Greenfield
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Richard Spelling <rls@...> wrote:
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> Went to bed tired and annoyed I couldn't easily find a slower gear motor
> for the laminator.
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> Dreamed about building a magical speed controller that would let me run
> the existing motor infinitely slow.
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> Realized I could use "temporal kinetic and thermal stabilization" since
> it's a worm gear motor.
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> I.E., I build a standard PWM controller but set the frequency real
> sloowwwwww.
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> Imagine having the speed turned down real low. Along comes a pulse. The
> motor spins up and turns the worm screw a revolution or two, then spins
> down. The board advances a fraction of an inch. An in-determinant amount
> of time later, along comes another pulse.
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> Yes, it's "jogging" the board forward and not continuous motion, but
> between jogs it sits between the rollers long enough for the heat to
> transfer through the paper.
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> I'm thinking about 10Hz.
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> Whatcha think? Just another crazy idear from Richard?
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> Now I just need to build the board.
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> Wait a second, I need my laminator to build the board to fix the laminator!
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