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    How to wire a treadmill motor to my grain mill

    Miraculously I found the answer I need for the exact model of motor control board I have. I want to thank you all for your suggestions and review the options in case someone else is in my spot in the future: 1) Ditch the controller and step it down with sheaves or gears: This was BeardedBrews...
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    How to wire a treadmill motor to my grain mill

    I'm hoping that I can hook up a simple PWM controller to the main board. I saw a build where they used this MC2100 motor controller and wired a PWM to it and got it running. I'm mostly concerned about the ratings for the PWM controller that I would need for this. I ordered a DC 10-50V 30A 1000W...
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    How to wire a treadmill motor to my grain mill

    Here’s the motor plate. It’s a standard 4 wire DC motor. I believe it will run somewhere around 1760 rpms if not controlled. The pulley ratio is about 1:2.25, so that would have the rollers going at 780 rpms. Way too fast.
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    How to wire a treadmill motor to my grain mill

    Hi, I need some help rewiring a treadmill control board for my grain mill. When the treadmill belt bit the dust I took apart the whole thing to harvest the motor and controls. If I understand correctly (unlikely) the motor speed is controlled by the control board using PWM, and the control board...
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    Plastic Big Mouth Bubbler Sealing Problems

    Got the 6.5 gallon BMB with the original screw-on lid off of Craigslist. Similar to what others say, primary is not a huge concern but secondary or cold crashing you need a good seal. After reading this and the thread by passedpawn what worked for me was three layers of sanitized saran wrap...
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